Hi All,

**library(TCGAbiolinks)** is giving errors as *gridExtra* was renamed so I can not use it to download and analyzing the TCGA data. Except **GDC Portal** (our IT support having problems to install the data transfer tool, so I can not use it right now) is there any other alternatives to get the TCGA-BRCA data to do differential gene expression analysis.

Thanks,

Gokce
Can you show what you are doing and replicate the error so as to make up help you, if a dependency package or module is renamed then it should be also forked into the TCGAbiolonks package if all install.dependancies are made TRUE. If it's a bug then you can always contact their GitHub repo to report it. 

Alternative is [TCGA2STAT][1]. Take a look at it. I believe you are just downloading the open files and not controlled access data so this package should also work and then you can use your custom lima-voom, edgeR or DESeq2 for your downstream analysis once you have all the meta-data and the count data downloaded for yourself.


  [1]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/TCGA2STAT/vignettes/TCGA2STAT.html