Modern R Programming Cookbook

How to do it…

Let's perform the following steps to perform a PubMed literature search using R:

1. Load the pubmed.mineR and RISmed libraries into your R session.
2. Create an object containing keywords.
3. Parse the keyword term to create a query term into the form of PubMed search_query.
4. Parse the search_query term to get the search results.
5. Retrieve the relevant information from the output objects.

Here is the code to perform the preceding tasks mentioned:

        library(pubmed.mineR)        library(RISmed)        keyword <- "Deep Learning"        search_query <- EUtilsSummary(keyword, retmax=10)        summary(search_query)        fetch <- EUtilsGet(search_query)

6. The fetch object contains all the information you might be interested in. Here is the list of objects that you can extract ...