entrez_db_searchable: List available search fields for a given database

In rentrez: 'Entrez' in R

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)

Arguments

db	character, name of database to get search field from
config	config vector passed to httr::GET

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.

See Also

entrez_search

Other einfo: entrez_db_links, entrez_db_summary, entrez_dbs, entrez_info

Examples

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)

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