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)
a character string specifying the database that shall be downloaded
(selected from listDatabases
).
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.
A character vector storing the file paths of the downloaded databases.
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")
}