getPubMed {phm}

Create a data table from a text file in PubMed format

Description

This function takes as input a file produced via PubMed in PubMed format and outputs a data frame with the id equal to the PMID, text equal to the abstract, date, title, and author for each publication in the file.

Usage

getPubMed(file)

Arguments

file

path to the PubMed file

Value

A data table with a row for each publication holding the id equal to the PMID, text equal to the abstract, date, title, and author for that publication.

Examples

#Go to Pubmed and enter search criteria, save the result to PubMed format.
#If the file is called pubmed_result.txt and located in the current
#directory:
#PM=getPubMed("pubmed_result.txt")
#Will load the data from the search into a data table called PM