retrieveURL function

Retries a URL

retrieveURL(data, species, outputFormat, maxRetries = 3, successCode = 200)

Arguments

• data: A gene list
• species: The taxonomy name/id. Default is "9606" for Homo sapiens
• outputFormat: format of the output. Can be "highres_image", "tsv", "json", "tsv-no-header", "xml"
• maxRetries: maximum number of attempts to connect to the STRING api.
• successCode: Status code number that represents success

Returns

either the output of httr::GET or an error message

Author(s)

Waldir Leoncio