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reutils (version 0.2.1)

Talk to the NCBI EUtils

Description

An interface to NCBI databases such as PubMed, GenBank, or GEO powered by the Entrez Programming Utilities (EUtils). The nine EUtils provide programmatic access to the NCBI Entrez query and database system for searching and retrieving biological data.

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install.packages('reutils')

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0.2.1

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MIT + file LICENSE

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https://github.com/gschofl/reutils

Maintainer

Gerhard Schöfl

Last Published

August 29th, 2015

Functions in reutils (0.2.1)

eutil_error-class

Class "eutil_error":

esearch - searching an Entrez database

uid,entrez_linkset-method

Extract a node set from an XML document

Extract the tag name of XML nodes

content,ecitmatch-method

Extract the data content from an Entrez request

einfo - getting database statistics and search fields

database,entrez_linkset-method

[,efetch,character,missing-method

EFetch accessors

elink - finding related data through Entrez links

egquery - performing a global Entrez search

efetch - downloading full records

Flatten nested lists

entrez_linkset-class

Class "entrez_linkset"

webenv,epost-method

espell - retrieving spelling suggestions

ncbi_retrieval_type

Set the NCBI rettype

[,elink,ANY,missing-method

ELink Accessors

esummary - downloading Document Summaries

[,esearch,numeric,missing-method

ESearch Accessors

[,esummary,character,ANY-method

ESummary accessors

epost - uploading UIDs to Entrez

Extract the attributes of XML nodes

Class "eutil": Reference classes that hold the response from EUtils requests.

ecitmatch - searching PubMed with citation data

entrez_uid-class

Class "entrez_uid"

[,einfo,ANY,missing-method

EInfo accessors

Extract the content of XML leaf nodes

An interface to the NCBI Entrez programming Utilities.

querykey,epost-method