pubmed_search: Perform a search on PubMed

In CorradoLanera/bibsearch: Facilitate Programmatically Creation of Shareable Files of Bibliographic Searches Results

Description

This function wraps easyPubMed::get_pubmed_ids and easyPubMed::fetch_pubmed_data to collect results of a query to PubMed

Usage

pubmed_search(search_string, max_to_get = 25, api_key = NULL)

Arguments

search_string	(character vector of length 1) that is used for querying PubMed (standard PubMed syntax, see reference for details).
max_to_get	Integer (>= 1): maximum number of records to retrieve. Note that, if they are not finished, a complete batch will be always retrieved; hence, more than max_to_get records will be retrieved Set it to Inf to be sure to retrieve all the possible results.
api_key	(character vector of length 1): user-specific API key to increase the limit of queries per second above three. You can obtain your key from NCBI (see https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017/11/02/new-api-keys-for-the-e-utilities/

Value

an object of class pubmed

Examples

## Not run: 
    pubmed_search("machine learning", 1)
    pubmed_search("aaaa", 1) # no result

## End(Not run)

CorradoLanera/bibsearch documentation built on Jan. 1, 2020, 10:24 p.m.