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TCGAretriever

Retrieve Genomic and Clinical Data from CBioPortal Including TCGA Data

v1.10.3 · Feb 23, 2026 · GPL-3

Description

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a program aimed at improving our understanding of Cancer Biology. Several TCGA Datasets are available online. 'TCGAretriever' helps accessing and downloading TCGA data hosted on 'cBioPortal' via its Web Interface (see <https://www.cbioportal.org/> for more information).

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
r-devel-macos-arm64 OK
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 OK
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r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-macos-arm64 OK
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Check History

OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 24, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 20, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘get_started_with_TCGAretriever.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Error in .Call(R_curl_fetch_memory, enc2utf8(url), handle, nonblocking) : 
  reached elapsed time limit


Quitting from get_started_with_TCGAretriever.Rmd:47-55 [unnamed-chunk-1]
Execution halted
ERROR r-release-windows-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'get_started_with_TCGAretriever.Rmd' using rmarkdown
Error in .Call(R_curl_fetch_memory, enc2utf8(url), handle, nonblocking) : 
  reached elapsed time limit


Quitting from get_started_with_TCGAretriever.Rmd:47-55 [unnamed-chunk-1]
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies httr reshape2 jsonlite TCGAretriever

Version History

new 1.10.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.10.3 ← 1.10.1 diff Feb 22, 2026
updated 1.10.1 ← 1.9.1 diff Nov 19, 2025
updated 1.9.1 ← 1.7 diff Jan 22, 2024
updated 1.7 ← 1.5 diff Jul 9, 2023
updated 1.5 ← 1.3 diff Dec 16, 2019
updated 1.3 ← 1.1 diff Jul 29, 2016
new 1.1 Jul 12, 2016