Download all elements of an NCBI databse — download.database.all • biomartr
Description: The download.database functions allows users to retrieve individual packages of a NCBI database. This function is designed to retrieve the entire database selected by the users (hence all packages corresponding to this database).

# Download all elements of an NCBI databse

Source: `R/download_database_all.R`
`download.database.all.Rd`

The `download.database` functions allows users to retrieve individual packages of a NCBI database. This function is designed to retrieve the entire database selected by the users (hence all packages corresponding to this database).

    download.database.all(db, path = NULL)

## Arguments

db

  a character string specifying the database that shall be downloaded (selected from `listDatabases`).

path

  a character string specifying the location (a folder) in which the corresponding database shall be stored. In case this folder does not exist yet, it will be created.

## Value

A character vector storing the file paths of the downloaded databases.

## See also

`download.database`, `listNCBIDatabases`

## Author

Hajk-Georg Drost

## Examples

    if (FALSE) {
    # search for available NCBI databases
      listNCBIDatabases(db = "all")
    # choose database NCBI nr and download compelete database
      download.database.all(db = "nr", path = "nr")
    }