rentrez 0.1

Search the NCBI databases using EUtils

Usage

entrez_search(db, term, ...)

Arguments

db
character Name of the database to search for
term
character The search term
...
character Additional terms to add to the request

Value

ids integer Unique IDS returned by the search

count integer Total number of hits for the search

retmax integer Maximum number of hits returned by the search

QueryKey integer identifier for specific query in webhistory

WebEnv character identifier for session key to use with history

file XMLInternalDocument xml file resulting from search, parsed with xmlTreeParse

Description

Contstructs a url with the given arguments, are downloads xml record returned by that url. See the package-level documentation for general advice on using the EUtils functions.

Examples

## Not run: #  ratites <- entrez_search(db="popset", term="ratite", usehistory=TRUE)#   entrez_fetch(db="popset", ids="", file_format="fasta", WebEnv=ratites$WebEnv, query_key=ratites$QueryKey)# ## End(Not run)