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pmparser

Create and Maintain a Relational Database of Data from PubMed/MEDLINE

v1.0.25 · Mar 2, 2026 · GPL-2

Description

Provides a simple interface for extracting various elements from the publicly available PubMed XML files, incorporating PubMed's regular updates, and combining the data with the NIH Open Citation Collection. See Schoenbachler and Hughey (2021) <doi:10.7717/peerj.11071>.

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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 11, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
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tests

Running ‘testthat.R’ [6s/25s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Complete output:
  > library(testthat)
  > library(pmparser)
  > 
  > test_check('pmparser')
  Saving _problems/test_modify_pubmed_db_dup-69.R
  Saving _problems/test_modif
...[truncated]...
nd) %do% ...
   4.       └─e$fun(obj, substitute(ex), parent.frame(), e$data)
  
  [ FAIL 3 | WARN 0 | SKIP 4 | PASS 95 ]
  Error:
  ! Test failures.
  Warning message:
  call dbDisconnect() when finished working with a connection 
  Execution halted

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies curl data.table DBI foreach glue iterators jsonlite R.utils RCurl withr xml2 pmparser

Version History

new 1.0.25 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.25 ← 1.0.24 diff Mar 1, 2026
updated 1.0.24 ← 1.0.23 diff Feb 4, 2026
updated 1.0.23 ← 1.0.21 diff Dec 14, 2025
updated 1.0.21 ← 1.0.20 diff Jan 13, 2025
updated 1.0.20 ← 1.0.19 diff Jan 12, 2024
updated 1.0.19 ← 1.0.18 diff Dec 17, 2023
updated 1.0.18 ← 1.0.17 diff Nov 30, 2023
updated 1.0.17 ← 1.0.16 diff May 23, 2023
updated 1.0.16 ← 1.0.15 diff Feb 11, 2023
updated 1.0.15 ← 1.0.13 diff Dec 12, 2022
updated 1.0.13 ← 1.0.11 diff Nov 23, 2022
updated 1.0.11 ← 1.0.10 diff Nov 7, 2022
updated 1.0.10 ← 1.0.4 diff Apr 27, 2022
new 1.0.4 Feb 16, 2022