R: Summarize an XML record from pubmed.

parse_pubmed_xml {rentrez} | R Documentation

## 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)

[Package rentrez version 1.2.1 Index]