List available links for records from a given NCBI database
Source:R/entrez_info.r
entrez_db_links.Rd
For a given database, fetch a list of other databases that contain
cross-referenced records. The names of these records can be used as the
db
argument in entrez_link
Arguments
- db
character, name of database to search
- config
config vector passed to
httr::GET
Value
An eInfoLink object (sub-classed from list) summarizing linked-databases.
Can be coerced to a data-frame with as.data.frame
. Printing the object
the name of each element (which is the correct name for entrez_link
,
and can be used to get (a little) more information about each linked database
(see example below).
See also
Other einfo:
entrez_db_searchable()
,
entrez_db_summary()
,
entrez_dbs()
,
entrez_info()
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
taxid <- entrez_search(db="taxonomy", term="Osmeriformes")$ids
tax_links <- entrez_db_links("taxonomy")
tax_links
entrez_link(dbfrom="taxonomy", db="pmc", id=taxid)
sra_links <- entrez_db_links("sra")
as.data.frame(sra_links)
} # }