Tag Archive: PubMed

easyPubMed for business: scraping PubMed data in R for a targeting campaign

Damiano January 21, 2016 6 Comments

In this post, I will cover how to use easyPubMed (R Package) to retrieve data from PubMed. This example is focused on data extraction from PubMed records for a targeting campaign. The post is aimed at suggesting a business-oriented way…
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data science, tutorials

businessPubMed, CRAN, easyPubMed, PubMed, R, regex, scraping

Querying PubMed via the easyPubMed package in R

Damiano January 5, 2016 36 Comments

PubMed (NCBI Entrez) is an online database of citations for biomedical literature that is available at the following URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed. Retrieving data from PubMed is also possible in an automated way via the NCBI Entrez E-utilities. A description of how…
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data science

PubMed, R, regex, XML