Hi, all

i am working in a pharmaceuticals in japan.

and i am very new to Bioconductor, after piling up the career as a biostatistician in tokyo etc....

now i am trying to connet to TCGA open data set and downloading data using TCGA biolinks.

in that case, i need to set the fire wall allow to connect to the TCGA data base FTP address.

i need to specify the address, where TCGAbiolinks connects.

if you know it, would you ming telling me the FTP address for TCGAbiolonks ?

Thanks in advance !

A quick look at the source for the function suggests the downloading in TCGAbiolinks is done over HTTPS e.g.

>TCGAdownload
function (data = NULL, path = ".", type = NULL, samples = NULL, 
    force = FALSE) 
{
    dir.create(path, showWarnings = FALSE, recursive = TRUE)
    root <- "https://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov"
    .....
}

The rest of the URL is dependant upon whether you're asking for specific samples or whole datasets, but is defined in the "deployLocation" column in the data argument you pass to TGCGAdownload()