How to use TCGAbiolinks to download TCGA clinical data

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Use TCGAbiolinks to download TCGA clinical data and integrate the data

Download and process TCGA clinical information is very troublesome, different cancers, the format is not the same, it is not easy to deal with.

It is very convenient to use TCGAbiolinks package to download and process clinical information.

So let's take downloading clinical data of patients with gastric cancer as an example to see how to download the data.

# load the required package library (SummarizedExperiment) library (TCGAbiolinks) # GDC: https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/############################## # # setting Program Parameter work_dir