In hrbrmstr/whatamesh: Tools to Work with ASCII MeSH Files

whatamesh

Tools to Work with ASCII MeSH Files

Description

Tools to Work with ASCII MeSH Files

Ref:

• ftp://nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov/online/mesh/MESH_FILES/asciimesh/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52814022/how-to-split-txt-file-at-specific-location-and-import-each-part-as-table-in-r/52815428?noredirect=1#comment92554994_52815428

What's Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

• list_mesh_files: List ASCII MeSH Files Available For Download
• read_mesh_file: Download and parse an ASCII MeSH File

Installation

devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/whatamesh")

options(width=120)

Usage

library(whatamesh)

# current verison
packageVersion("whatamesh")

List Remote MeSH Files

list_mesh_files()

Read & Parse a MeSH File

If the string passed in matches a local filename it will be read in locally, otherwise it will be downloaded. NOTE: large files take a while.

Nested:

read_mesh_file("q2018.bin")

Wide:

read_mesh_file("q2018.bin", wide = TRUE)

hrbrmstr/whatamesh documentation built on May 22, 2019, 2:18 p.m.