Retrieve All Available Attributes for a Specific Dataset — getAttributes • biomartr
Description: This function queries the BioMart Interface and returns a table storing all available attributes for a specific dataset.

# Retrieve All Available Attributes for a Specific Dataset

Source: `R/getAttributes.R`
`getAttributes.Rd`

This function queries the BioMart Interface and returns a table storing all available attributes for a specific dataset.

    getAttributes(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 attributes shall be listed.

mute_citation

  logical value indicating whether citation message should be muted.

## See also

`getMarts`, `getDatasets`, `getFilters`, `organismBM`, `organismFilters`, `organismAttributes`

## Author

Hajk-Georg Drost

## Examples

    if (FALSE) {
    # search for available datasets
    getMarts()

    # choose database (mart): ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL
    # and get a table of all available datasets from this BioMart database
    head(getDatasets(mart = "ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL"), 10)

    # choose dataset: "hsapiens_gene_ensembl"
    head(getAttributes(mart = "ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL",
                       dataset = "hsapiens_gene_ensembl") , 5)
    }