scrapeIDs: Scrape IDs

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Description

Mines article IDs from NCBI databases according to the seach criteria.

Usage

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scrapeIDs(dataBase = "pubmed", term = "prostate cancer[MeSH]")

Arguments

dataBase

A string. Indicates the database from which you want to search.

term

A string. The terms used to search the specified database.

Value

A list containing all of the ids of the articles that matched the search criteria.

Examples

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pmids2017 <- scrapeIDs(dataBase = 'pubmed',
                       term = '(prostate cancer[MeSH Terms]) AND 2017[Date - Publication]')

head(pmids2017)

Evatar/geneScrapeR documentation built on Aug. 22, 2021, 9:54 a.m.