parse_pubmed_xml {rentrez}

Summarize an XML record from pubmed.

Description

Note: this function assumes all records are of the type "PubmedArticle" and will return an empty record for any other type (including books).

Usage

parse_pubmed_xml(record)

Arguments

record

Either and XMLInternalDocument or character the record to be parsed ( expected to come from entrez_fetch)

Value

Either a single pubmed_record object, or a list of several

Examples

hox_paper <- entrez_search(db="pubmed", term="10.1038/nature08789[doi]")
hox_rel <- entrez_link(db="pubmed", dbfrom="pubmed", id=hox_paper$ids)
recs <- entrez_fetch(db="pubmed", 
                       id=hox_rel$links$pubmed_pubmed[1:3], 
                       rettype="xml")
parse_pubmed_xml(recs)