get_pubmed: Get information on the clade from pubmed

In bomeara/chapter2: Creates an Initial Report for a Clade

Get information on the clade from pubmed

Description

This will give the total number of pubmed articles mentioning the taxon name and other search string and information on the most recent such papers.

Usage

get_pubmed(taxon, search.string = " AND phylogeny", retmax = 50)

Arguments

taxon	The clade of interest
search.string	Include spaces and AND and similar search elements
retmax	how many papers to return

Value

List with a count element (integer) and a recent.papers element (data.frame)

Examples

taxon <- "Formicidae"
results <- get_pubmed(taxon)
print(paste("There are", results$count, "papers on", taxon, "and phylogeny"))
print(results$recent.papers[,c("Date", "FirstAuthor")])

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