entrez_link: Get links to datasets related to a unique ID from an NCBI...

In rentrez: Entrez in R

Description

Contstructs a query with the given arguments and downloands the XML document created by that query. Unique IDs from linked-databases

Usage

  entrez_link(db, dbfrom, ...)

Arguments

db	character Name of the database to search for links (or use "all" to earch all NCBI databases
dbfrom	character Name of database from which the Id(s) orginate
...	character Additional terms to add to the request

Value

An elink object containing vectors of unique IDs the vectors names take the form [db_from]_[db_to]

file XMLInternalDocument xml file resulting from search, parsed with xmlTreeParse

Examples

## Not run: 
 pubmed_search <- entrez_search(db = "pubmed", term = "10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.013[doi]")
 linked_data <- entrez_link(dbfrom = "pubmed", id = pubmed_search$ids, db = "all")
nucleotide_IDs <- linked_data$pubmed_nuccore

## End(Not run)

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