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rentrez (version 1.2.4)

'Entrez' in R

Description

Provides an R interface to the NCBI's 'EUtils' API, allowing users to search databases like 'GenBank' and 'PubMed' , process the results of those searches and pull data into their R sessions.

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install.packages('rentrez')

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1.2.4

License

MIT + file LICENSE

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Maintainer

David Winter

Last Published

June 11th, 2025

Functions in rentrez (1.2.4)

entrez_global_query

Find the number of records that match a given term across all NCBI Entrez databases
entrez_info

Get information about EUtils databases
entrez_dbs

List databases available from the NCBI
entrez_fetch

Download data from NCBI databases
entrez_db_searchable

List available search fields for a given database
entrez_db_summary

Retrieve summary information about an NCBI database
entrez_link

Get links to datasets related to records from an NCBI database
entrez_citmatch

Fetch pubmed ids matching specially formatted citation strings
entrez_db_links

List available links for records from a given NCBI database
entrez_post

Post IDs to Eutils for later use
set_entrez_key

Set the ENTREZ_KEY variable to be used by all rentrez functions
entrez_search

Search the NCBI databases using EUtils
extract_from_esummary

Extract elements from a list of esummary records
linkout_urls

Extract URLs from an elink object
parse_pubmed_xml

Summarize an XML record from pubmed.
entrez_summary

Get summaries of objects in NCBI datasets from a unique ID
rentrez-package

rentrez: 'Entrez' in R