entrez_db_summary: Retrieve summary information about an NCBI database

In rentrez: 'Entrez' in R

Retrieve summary information about an NCBI database

Description

Retrieve summary information about an NCBI database

Usage

entrez_db_summary(db, config = NULL)

Arguments

db	character, name of database to summaries
config	config vector passed to httr::GET

Value

Character vector with the following data

DbName Name of database

Description Brief description of the database

Count Number of records contained in the database

MenuName Name in web-interface to EUtils

DbBuild Unique ID for current build of database

LastUpdate Date of most recent update to database

See Also

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

Examples

## Not run: 
entrez_db_summary("pubmed")

## End(Not run)

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