rentrez (version 1.2.4)

entrez_db_searchable: List available search fields for a given database

Description

Fetch a list of search fields that can be used with a given database. Fields can be used as part of the term argument to entrez_search

Usage

entrez_db_searchable(db, config = NULL)

Value

An eInfoSearch object (subclassed from list) summarizing linked-databases. Can be coerced to a data-frame with as.data.frame. Printing the object shows only the names of each available search field.

Arguments

db

character, name of database to get search field from

config

config vector passed to httr::GET

See Also

entrez_search

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

Examples

if (FALSE) {
pmc_fields <- entrez_db_searchable("pmc")
pmc_fields[["AFFL"]]
entrez_search(db="pmc", term="Otago[AFFL]", retmax=0)
entrez_search(db="pmc", term="Auckland[AFFL]", retmax=0)

sra_fields <- entrez_db_searchable("sra")
as.data.frame(sra_fields)
}