Retrieve All Available Filters for a Specific Dataset — getFilters • biomartr
Description: This funcion queries the BioMart API and returns a table storing all available filters for a specific dataset.

# Retrieve All Available Filters for a Specific Dataset

Source: `R/getFilters.R`
`getFilters.Rd`

This funcion queries the BioMart API and returns a table storing all available filters for a specific dataset.

    getFilters(mart, dataset, mute_citation = FALSE)

## Arguments

mart

  a character string specifying the database (mart) for which datasets shall be listed.

dataset

  a character string specifying the dataset for which filters shall be listed.

mute_citation

  logical value indicating whether citation message should be muted.

## See also

`getMarts`, `getDatasets`, `getAttributes`, `organismBM`, `organismFilters`, `organismAttributes`

## Author

Hajk-Georg Drost

## Examples

    if (FALSE) {
    # search for available datasets
    # getMarts()
    # choose database (mart): "ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL"
    # head(getDatasets(mart = "ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL"), 10)
    # choose dataset: "hsapiens_gene_ensembl"
    head(getFilters(mart = "ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL",
                    dataset = "hsapiens_gene_ensembl") , 5)
    }