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 of BioMart databases to which biomaRt
     can connect to.  By default all public BioMart databases are
     displayed.  To establish a connection use the useMart function.

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

     listMarts(mart, host="www.biomart.org", path="/biomart/martservice", port=80, includeHosts = FALSE, archive=FALSE, user, password,mysql=FALSE)

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

    mart: mart object created with the useMart function

    host: host to connect to if different then www.biomart.org

    path: path to martservice that should be pasted behind the host to
          get to web service URL

    port: port to use in HTTP communication

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

 archive: Boolean to indicate if you want to access archived versions
          of BioMart database

    user: MySQL access is no longer available through this package

password: MySQL access is no longer available through this package

   mysql: MySQL access is no longer available through this package. 
          All queries can be made through the web service mode. use
          mysql=FALSE

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

     Steffen Durinck, <URL: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~steffen>

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

     if(interactive()){
     listMarts()
     }

