entrez_summary: Get summaries of objects in NCBI datasets from a unique ID

In rentrez: Entrez in R

Description

Contstructs a query from the given arguments, including a database name and list of of unique IDs for that database then downloads the XML document created by that query. The XML document is parsed, with the

Usage

  entrez_summary(db, ...)

Arguments

db	character Name of the database to search for
...	character Additional terms to add to the request. Requires either ID (unique id(s) for records in a given database) or WebEnv (a character containing a cookie created by a previous entrez query).

Value

A list of esummary records (if multiple IDs are passed) or a single record.

file XMLInternalDocument xml file resulting from search, parsed with xmlTreeParse

Examples

## Not run: 
 pop_ids = c("307082412", "307075396", "307075338", "307075274")
 pop_summ <- entrez_summary(db="popset", id=pop_ids)
 sapply(popset_summ, "[[", "Title")

## End(Not run)

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