pm.abstGrep {annotate} | R Documentation

## 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

`pm.getabst`, `pm.titles`

### Examples

      library("hgu95av2.db")
      hoxa9 <- "37806_at"
      absts <- pm.getabst(hoxa9, "hgu95av2")
      pm.abstGrep("SH3", absts[[1]])
      pm.abstGrep("autism", absts[[1]])

[Package annotate version 1.62.0 Index]