rentrez (version 1.2.4)

entrez_db_links: List available links for records from a given NCBI database

Description

For a given database, fetch a list of other databases that contain cross-referenced records. The names of these records can be used as the db argument in entrez_link

Usage

entrez_db_links(db, config = NULL)

Value

An eInfoLink object (sub-classed from list) summarizing linked-databases. Can be coerced to a data-frame with as.data.frame. Printing the object the name of each element (which is the correct name for entrez_link, and can be used to get (a little) more information about each linked database (see example below).

Arguments

db

character, name of database to search

config

config vector passed to httr::GET

See Also

entrez_link

Other einfo: entrez_db_searchable(), entrez_db_summary(), entrez_dbs(), entrez_info()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
taxid <- entrez_search(db="taxonomy", term="Osmeriformes")$ids
tax_links <- entrez_db_links("taxonomy")
tax_links
entrez_link(dbfrom="taxonomy", db="pmc", id=taxid)

sra_links <- entrez_db_links("sra")
as.data.frame(sra_links)
}