PubMedScrapeR: PubMedScrapeR is a function that will send keyword queries to...

In ShanSabri/PubMedScrapeR: R package to scrape PubMed abstracts for commonly occuring words given a search keyword

Description

PubMedScrapeR is a function that will send keyword queries to PubMed, scrape all abstracts that are returned by the query, and return the most frequently occuring words associated with the keyword. Results are purely composed by words associated with the keyword from published abstracts on PubMed.

Usage

PubMedScrapeR(keyword, top_n = 2000, output = NULL, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

keyword	a character string or many strings that are comma seperated
top_n	top frequently occuring words to return
output	(optional) directory to output results
verbose	provides information about when querying PubMed API

Value

a list of data.frames containing the top_n most frequently occuring words found in PubMed abstracts given keyword

Examples

results <- PubMedScrapeR::PubMedScrapeR(keyword = c("Shan Sabri", "asdfjkj;"), top_n = 2000, verbose = TRUE)
results <- PubMedScrapeR::PubMedScrapeR(keyword = c("Shan Sabri", "asdfjkj;"), top_n = 2000, verbose = FALSE)

ShanSabri/PubMedScrapeR documentation built on Oct. 30, 2019, 11:53 p.m.