R: List available search fields for a given database

entrez_db_searchable {rentrez} | R Documentation

## List available search fields for a given database

### Description

Fetch a list of search fields that can be used with a given database. Fields can be used as part of the `term` argument to `entrez_search`

### Usage

    entrez_db_searchable(db, config = NULL)

### Arguments

`db` | character, name of database to get search field from
`config` | config vector passed to `httr::GET`

### Value

An eInfoSearch object (subclassed from list) summarizing linked-databases. Can be coerced to a data-frame with `as.data.frame`. Printing the object shows only the names of each available search field.

### See Also

`entrez_search`

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

### Examples

    pmc_fields <- entrez_db_searchable("pmc")
    pmc_fields[["AFFL"]]
    entrez_search(db="pmc", term="Otago[AFFL]", retmax=0)
    entrez_search(db="pmc", term="Auckland[AFFL]", retmax=0)

    sra_fields <- entrez_db_searchable("sra")
    as.data.frame(sra_fields)

[Package rentrez version 1.2.1 Index]