entrez_db_summary {rentrez}R Documentation

Retrieve summary information about an NCBI database

Description

Retrieve summary information about an NCBI database

Usage

entrez_db_summary(db, config = NULL)

Arguments

db

character, name of database to summaries

config

config vector passed to httr::GET

Value

Character vector with the following data

DbName Name of database

Description Brief description of the database

Count Number of records contained in the database

MenuName Name in web-interface to EUtils

DbBuild Unique ID for current build of database

LastUpdate Date of most recent update to database

See Also

Other einfo: entrez_db_links(), entrez_db_searchable(), entrez_dbs(), entrez_info()

Examples

## Not run: 
entrez_db_summary("pubmed")

## End(Not run)

[Package rentrez version 1.2.3 Index]