extract: Extract
In brechtdv/bd: brechtdv's helper functions

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s)

Extract data from PubMed files.

1 2	## extract from pubmed file extract_pubmed(file, what = c("TI", "AUTH", "SRC", "YEAR", "AB"))

`file`	A character string giving the name of the file to read.
`what`	A character vector giving the column name(s) that need to be read. Should be one or more of `c("TI", "AUTH", "SRC", "YEAR", "AB")`, referring to Title, Author, Source, Year, and Abstract.

When doing a PubMed search, click Send to: in the top right part of the screen, then select Choose Destination: File and Format: MEDLINE. This will generate a .txt-file that can be saved on your computer. extract_pubmed can now be used to extract Title, (first) Author, Source (=journal), Year and Abstract from this file. Use write_cb to copy these data to your clipboard and paste them in Excel.

A character matrix containing the requested data.

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