Contents

Installation

library(cBioPortalData)
library(AnVIL)

Introduction

This vignette lays out the two main user-facing functions for downloading and representing data from the cBioPortal API. cBioDataPack makes use of the legacy distribution data method in cBioPortal (via tarballs). cBioPortalData allows for a more flexibile approach to obtaining data based on several available parameters including available molecular profiles.

Two main interfaces

cBioDataPack: Obtain Study Data as Zipped Tarballs

This function will access the packaged data from and return an integrative MultiAssayExperiment representation.

## Use ask=FALSE for non-interactive use
cBioDataPack("laml_tcga", ask = FALSE)
## A MultiAssayExperiment object of 12 listed
##  experiments with user-defined names and respective classes.
##  Containing an ExperimentList class object of length 12:
##  [1] CNA: SummarizedExperiment with 24776 rows and 191 columns
##  [2] RNA_Seq_expression_median: SummarizedExperiment with 19720 rows and 179 columns
##  [3] RNA_Seq_mRNA_median_all_sample_Zscores: SummarizedExperiment with 19720 rows and 179 columns
##  [4] RNA_Seq_v2_expression_median: SummarizedExperiment with 20531 rows and 173 columns
##  [5] RNA_Seq_v2_mRNA_median_Zscores: SummarizedExperiment with 20440 rows and 173 columns
##  [6] RNA_Seq_v2_mRNA_median_all_sample_Zscores: SummarizedExperiment with 20531 rows and 173 columns
##  [7] cna_hg19.seg: RaggedExperiment with 13571 rows and 191 columns
##  [8] linear_CNA: SummarizedExperiment with 24776 rows and 191 columns
##  [9] methylation_hm27: SummarizedExperiment with 10919 rows and 194 columns
##  [10] methylation_hm450: SummarizedExperiment with 10919 rows and 194 columns
##  [11] mutations_extended: RaggedExperiment with 2584 rows and 197 columns
##  [12] mutations_mskcc: RaggedExperiment with 2584 rows and 197 columns
## Features:
##  experiments() - obtain the ExperimentList instance
##  colData() - the primary/phenotype DFrame
##  sampleMap() - the sample availability DFrame
##  `$`, `[`, `[[` - extract colData columns, subset, or experiment
##  *Format() - convert into a long or wide DFrame
##  assays() - convert ExperimentList to a SimpleList of matrices

cBioPortalData: Obtain data from the cBioPortal API

This function provides a more flexible and granular way to request a MultiAssayExperiment object from a study ID, molecular profile, gene panel, sample list.

cbio <- cBioPortal()
acc <- cBioPortalData(api = cbio, by = "hugoGeneSymbol", studyId = "acc_tcga",
    genePanelId = "IMPACT341",
    molecularProfileIds = c("acc_tcga_rppa", "acc_tcga_linear_CNA")
)
## harmonizing input:
##   removing 1 colData rownames not in sampleMap 'primary'
acc
## A MultiAssayExperiment object of 2 listed
##  experiments with user-defined names and respective classes.
##  Containing an ExperimentList class object of length 2:
##  [1] acc_tcga_rppa: SummarizedExperiment with 57 rows and 46 columns
##  [2] acc_tcga_linear_CNA: SummarizedExperiment with 339 rows and 90 columns
## Features:
##  experiments() - obtain the ExperimentList instance
##  colData() - the primary/phenotype DFrame
##  sampleMap() - the sample availability DFrame
##  `$`, `[`, `[[` - extract colData columns, subset, or experiment
##  *Format() - convert into a long or wide DFrame
##  assays() - convert ExperimentList to a SimpleList of matrices

Clearing the cache

cBioDataPack

In cases where a download is interrupted, the user may experience a corrupt cache. The user can clear the cache for a particular study by using the removeCache function. Note that this function only works for data downloaded through the cBioDataPack function.

removeCache("laml_tcga")

cBioPortalData

For users who wish to clear the entire cBioPortalData cache, it is recommended that they use:

unlink("~/.cache/cBioPortalData/")

sessionInfo

sessionInfo()
## R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
## Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
## 
## Matrix products: default
## BLAS:   /home/biocbuild/bbs-3.11-bioc/R/lib/libRblas.so
## LAPACK: /home/biocbuild/bbs-3.11-bioc/R/lib/libRlapack.so
## 
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## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] parallel  stats4    stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets 
## [8] methods   base     
## 
## other attached packages:
##  [1] cBioPortalData_2.0.10       MultiAssayExperiment_1.14.0
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