EPM_esearch_basic_q: Submit a Query to the NCBI ESearch Server.
In dami82/easyPubMed: Search and Retrieve Scientific Publication Records from PubMed

EPM_esearch_basic_q

R Documentation

Submit a Query to the NCBI ESearch Server.

Description

Submit a Query to the NCBI ESearch Server and capture the response.

Usage

EPM_esearch_basic_q(params)

Arguments

params

List including the information for querying the NCBI ESearch Server.

Details

The params list must include the elements listed below.

'q'. String corresponding to the Query to be submitted to the server.
'api_key'. (Optional) String corresponding to the NCBI API key.

Value

Character vector including the response from the server.

Author(s)

Damiano Fantini, damiano.fantini@gmail.com

References

https://www.data-pulse.com/dev_site/easypubmed/

Examples

# Note: a time limit can be set in order to kill the operation when/if 
# the NCBI/Entrez server becomes unresponsive.
setTimeLimit(elapsed = 4.9)
try({
  my_q <- 'easyPubMed'
  my_params <- list(q = my_q)
  easyPubMed:::EPM_esearch_basic_q(params = my_params)
}, silent = TRUE)
setTimeLimit(elapsed = Inf)

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