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rentrez (version 1.0.1)

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')

Monthly Downloads

43,697

Version

1.0.1

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

David Winter

Last Published

February 29th, 2016

Functions in rentrez (1.0.1)

parse_pubmed_xml

Summarize an XML record from pubmed.

entrez_db_links

List available links for records from a given NCBI database

entrez_search

Search the NCBI databases using EUtils

entrez_db_searchable

List available search fields for a given database

entrez_global_query

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

entrez_citmatch

Fetch pubmed ids matching specially formatted citation strings

entrez_summary

Get summaries of objects in NCBI datasets from a unique ID

entrez_link

Get links to datasets related to records from an NCBI database

entrez_post

Post IDs to Eutils for later use

linkout_urls

Extract URLs from an elink object

entrez_fetch

Download data from NCBI databases

entrez_info

Get information about EUtils databases

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extract_from_esummary

Extract elements from a list of esummary records

entrez_dbs

List databases available from the NCBI

entrez_db_summary

Retrieve summary information about an NCBI database