rentrez: 'Entrez' in R

Provides an R interface to the NCBI's 'EUtils' API, allowing users to search databases like 'GenBank' <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/> and 'PubMed' <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>, process the results of those searches and pull data into their R sessions.

Version: 1.2.4
Depends: R (≥ 2.6.0)
Imports: XML, httr (≥ 0.5), jsonlite (≥ 0.9)
Suggests: testthat, knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2025-06-11
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rentrez
Author: David Winter ORCID iD [aut, cre], Scott Chamberlain ORCID iD [ctb], Han Guangchun ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: David Winter <david.winter at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/rentrez/issues/
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/ropensci/rentrez/
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: rentrez citation info
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: rentrez results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rentrez.html , rentrez.pdf
Vignettes: Rentrez Tutorial (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: rentrez_1.2.4.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: rentrez_1.2.4.zip, r-release: rentrez_1.2.4.zip, r-oldrel: rentrez_1.2.4.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): rentrez_1.2.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rentrez_1.2.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rentrez_1.2.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rentrez_1.2.4.tgz
Old sources: rentrez archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends: Map2NCBI
Reverse imports: animalcules, appreci8R, biolink, covid19.analytics, DeSciDe, fanyi, geneHummus, GEOquery, ginmappeR, ideal, LBDiscover, MACER, PathoStat, pubmedR, puremoe, read.gb, recount, refseqR, restez, rotl, vDiveR
Reverse suggests: BoSSA, idiogramFISH, openalexR, PACVr, searchAnalyzeR

Linking:

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