UCSCXenaTools: Download and Explore Datasets from UCSC Xena Data Hubs

Download and explore datasets from UCSC Xena data hubs, which are a collection of UCSC-hosted public databases such as TCGA, ICGC, TARGET, GTEx, CCLE, and others. Databases are normalized so they can be combined, linked, filtered, explored and downloaded.

Version: 1.6.1
Depends: R (≥ 3.5)
Imports: digest, dplyr, httr, jsonlite, magrittr, methods, readr, rlang, utils
Suggests: covr, knitr, prettydoc, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 2.1.0)
Published: 2025-08-21
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.UCSCXenaTools
Author: Shixiang Wang ORCID iD [aut, cre], Xue-Song Liu ORCID iD [aut], Martin Morgan [ctb], Christine Stawitz [rev] (Christine reviewed the package for ropensci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/315>), Carl Ganz [rev] (Carl reviewed the package for ropensci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/315>)
Maintainer: Shixiang Wang <w_shixiang at 163.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/UCSCXenaTools/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/UCSCXenaTools/, https://github.com/ropensci/UCSCXenaTools
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: UCSCXenaTools citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: UCSCXenaTools results

Documentation:

Reference manual: UCSCXenaTools.html , UCSCXenaTools.pdf
Vignettes: Basic usage (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: UCSCXenaTools_1.6.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: UCSCXenaTools_1.6.1.zip, r-release: UCSCXenaTools_1.6.1.zip, r-oldrel: UCSCXenaTools_1.6.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): UCSCXenaTools_1.6.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): UCSCXenaTools_1.6.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): UCSCXenaTools_1.6.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): UCSCXenaTools_1.6.1.tgz
Old sources: UCSCXenaTools archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: UCSCXenaShiny
Reverse suggests: sigminer

Linking:

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