Feeding BED: Dump tables with taxonomic information from NCBI

Not exported to avoid unintended modifications of the DB.

Usage

dumpNcbiTax(
  reDumpThr,
  ddir,
  toDump = c("names.dmp"),
  env = parent.frame(n = 1),
  curDate
)

Arguments

reDumpThr

time difference threshold between 2 downloads

ddir

path to the directory where the data should be saved

toDump

the list of tables to load

env

the R environment in which to load the tables when downloaded

curDate

current date as given by Sys.Date