seRvice: Helper function to select a service for data retrival

Description Usage Arguments Details Author(s) References

Description

Sets the options for an R environment to retrive data from a defined source.

Usage

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seRvice(sl = "Entrez")

Arguments

sl

is the service name (e.g., Entrez)

Details

This function sets the URL of a scientific web service to be used for the data retrival. Several data sources have been build durig the past few decades. The Entrez service is one of the most popular.

Author(s)

Stefan Roediger, Michal Burdukiewcz

References

Eric Sayers, The E-utilities In-Depth: Parameters, Syntax and More, 2015, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/


devSJR/mdcr documentation built on May 15, 2019, 5:05 a.m.