R: Retrieve summary information about an NCBI database

entrez_db_summary {rentrez} | R Documentation

## Retrieve summary information about an NCBI database

### Description

Retrieve summary information about an NCBI database

### Usage

    entrez_db_summary(db, config = NULL)

### Arguments

`db` | character, name of database to summaries
`config` | config vector passed to `httr::GET`

### Value

Character vector with the following data

DbName Name of database

Description Brief description of the database

Count Number of records contained in the database

MenuName Name in web-interface to EUtils

DbBuild Unique ID for current build of database

LastUpdate Date of most recent update to database

### See Also

Other einfo: `entrez_db_links`, `entrez_db_searchable`, `entrez_dbs`, `entrez_info`

### Examples

    entrez_db_summary("pubmed")

[Package rentrez version 1.2.1 Index]