pmidQuery: A function to query PubMed

In annotate: Annotation for microarrays

Description

Given a PMID, will create a URL which can be used to open a browser and retrieve the specified information from PubMed.

Usage

pmidQuery(query)

Arguments

query

The PubMed ID (or IDs)

Details

Using ublished details from NCBI we construct an appropriate string for directing a web browser to the information available at the NCBI.

Value

A character string containing the appropriate URL

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry

References

NCBI, https://www.ncbi.nih.gov/

See Also

UniGeneQuery

Examples

  a <- "9695952"
  pmidQuery(a)

Example output

Loading required package: AnnotationDbi
Loading required package: stats4
Loading required package: BiocGenerics
Loading required package: parallel

Attaching package: 'BiocGenerics'

The following objects are masked from 'package:parallel':

    clusterApply, clusterApplyLB, clusterCall, clusterEvalQ,
    clusterExport, clusterMap, parApply, parCapply, parLapply,
    parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    Filter, Find, Map, Position, Reduce, anyDuplicated, append,
    as.data.frame, cbind, colMeans, colSums, colnames, do.call,
    duplicated, eval, evalq, get, grep, grepl, intersect, is.unsorted,
    lapply, lengths, mapply, match, mget, order, paste, pmax, pmax.int,
    pmin, pmin.int, rank, rbind, rowMeans, rowSums, rownames, sapply,
    setdiff, sort, table, tapply, union, unique, unsplit, which,
    which.max, which.min

Loading required package: Biobase
Welcome to Bioconductor

    Vignettes contain introductory material; view with
    'browseVignettes()'. To cite Bioconductor, see
    'citation("Biobase")', and for packages 'citation("pkgname")'.

Loading required package: IRanges
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Attaching package: 'S4Vectors'

The following object is masked from 'package:base':

    expand.grid

Loading required package: XML
[1] "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov//entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9695952&dopt=Abstract&tool=bioconductor"

annotate documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 8:14 p.m.