get_sids {PubChemR}

Retrieve Substance IDs (SIDs) from PubChem

Description

This function sends a request to PubChem to retrieve Substance IDs (SIDs) for a given identifier.

Usage

get_sids(
  identifier,
  namespace = "cid",
  domain = "compound",
  searchtype = NULL,
  options = NULL
)

Arguments

identifier

A numeric or character vector specifying the identifiers for the request.

namespace

A character string specifying the namespace for the request. Default is 'cid'.

domain

A character string specifying the domain for the request. Default is 'compound'.

searchtype

A character string specifying the search type. Default is NULL.

options

Additional arguments passed to the PubChem request.

Value

An object of class 'PubChemInstance_SIDs', which is a list containing information retrieved from the PubChem database. Substance IDs can be extracted from the returned object using the SIDs function.

Examples

result <- get_sids(
  identifier = c("aspirin", "ibuprofen"),
  namespace = "name"
)

# Extract substance IDs of all compounds
SIDs(result)