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rentrez (version 0.3.1)

Entrez in R

Description

Rentrez provides an R interact to the NCBI's EUtils API allowing users to search databases like genbank and pubmed, process the resulting files and pull data into their R sessions.

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install.packages('rentrez')

Monthly Downloads

42,588

Version

0.3.1

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

David Winter

Last Published

September 24th, 2014

Functions in rentrez (0.3.1)

entrez_fetch

Download data from NCBI databases

entrez_link

Get links to datasets related to a unique ID from an NCBI database

entrez_post

Post IDs to Eutils for later use

entrez_summary

Get summaries of objects in NCBI datasets from a unique ID

See how many hits there are for a given term across all NCBI Entrez databses

entrez_search

Search the NCBI databases using EUtils

parse_pubmed_xml

Summarise an XML record from pubmed.