PubMed is one of the most important sources of text data containing scientific research papers. If you want to see the current trend of research in a topic, you can do so by doing a literature review. Using R, you will be able to search scientific papers through PubMed and then extract the title of the paper, journal name, and even the abstract text for further analysis. In this recipe, you will perform a literature search and retrieve abstracts along with the title and journal name and year of publication.
Extracting text data from PubMed
Getting ready
You will require the following two libraries to run this recipe:
- pubmed.mineR
- RISmed
To install the preceding two libraries along with their dependencies, execute the following...
