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pm.abstGrep

An interface to grep for PubMed abstracts.

Description

A user friendly interface to the functionality provided by pubmed.

Usage

pm.abstGrep(pattern, absts, ...)

Arguments

pattern

A pattern for the call to grep.
absts

A list containing abstracts downloaded using pubmed or equivalent.
...

Extra arguments passed to grep.

Details

The absts are a list of PubMed XML objects that have been downloaded and parsed. This function lets the user quickly search the abstracts for any regular expression. The returned value is a logical vector indicating which of the abstracts contain the regular expression.

Value

The returned value is a logical vector indicating which of the abstracts contain the regular expression.

Author(s)

Robert Gentleman

See Also

Examples

library("hgu95av2.db")
  hoxa9 <- "37806_at"
  absts <- pm.getabst(hoxa9, "hgu95av2")
  pm.abstGrep("SH3", absts[[1]])
  pm.abstGrep("autism", absts[[1]])
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v1.68.0
Artistic-2.0
Authors
R. Gentleman
Initial release

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