Data Download using TCGAbiolinks from TCGA database

Question

[maete561]

Hi, All

i am working in pharmaceuticals in japan.

i am so new to Bioconductor, now i am thinking to download data from TCGA database using TCGAbiolinks.

if i tryed to download from TCGA web site, i can download files, however if i tryed to download via TCGAbiolinks,

especially function "TCGAdownload", i failed to download data.

would you mind telling me how to download using TCGAdownload ?

Thanks in advance.

> TCGAdownload(datQuery,type = "rsem.genes.results",samples = "TCGA-A7-A0CH-11A-32R-A089-07")
Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) : Failed to connect to tcga-data.nci.nih.gov port 443: Timed out

Answer 1

[Sukhi Singh]

Looks like either the server was down or busy at that time. Try again once later.