listMarts              package:biomaRt              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This function returns a list for marts to which it can connect to.
     To establish a connection use the function martConnect with
     argument the name in the list (not the actual value e.g. use
     ensembl and not the full string of the database including release
     version).  You can also use this function to get the release
     information of the current databases which you using.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     listMarts(mart, host, user, password, port, includeHosts = FALSE, mysql=FALSE, archive=FALSE)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

    mart: mart object

    host: host to connect to

    user: username

password: password

    port: port to use in MySQL connection

includeHosts: boolean to indicate if function should return host of the
          BioMart databases

   mysql: Boolean to indicate to retrieve data from BioMart database
          via MySQL or via the BioMart webservice.  Default is via the
          webservice.

 archive: Boolean to indicate if you want to access archived versions
          od BioMart database s.  This currently only works with
          mysql=TRUE and the ensembl BioMart database

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Steffen Durinck, <URL: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck>

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     if(interactive()){
     listMarts()
     }

