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rPDBapi

A Comprehensive Interface for Accessing the Protein Data Bank

v3.0.1 · Mar 7, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Provides an R interface to the 'RCSB' Protein Data Bank ('PDB') Search and Data APIs (<https://www.rcsb.org/>). Supports full-text, attribute, sequence, motif, structure, and chemical searches; retrieval of entry-, assembly-, polymer-entity-, and chemical-component-level metadata; and conversion of API responses into analysis-ready tables and typed R objects for reproducible structural bioinformatics workflows.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 15, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 14, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

examples

Running examples in ‘rPDBapi-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: data_fetcher
> ### Title: Fetch RCSB PDB Data Based on Specified Criteria
> ### Aliases: data_fetcher

...[truncated]...
operties = properties,
+   return_as_dataframe = TRUE
+ )
Error: Failed to fetch data from PDB. Error: ERROR: GraphQL query execution failed. Details: Timeout was reached [data.rcsb.org]:
Connection timed out after 10002 milliseconds
Execution halted
OK 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 1 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
FAILURE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

for code/documentation mismatches

ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 7, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘rPDBapi-structural-bioinformatics.Rmd’ using rmarkdown

Quitting from rPDBapi-structural-bioinformatics.Rmd:1005-1014 [structure-search]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...[truncated]...
ver didn't respond in time.
</body></html>

--- failed re-building ‘rPDBapi-structural-bioinformatics.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘rPDBapi-structural-bioinformatics.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies dplyr purrr httr jsonlite xml2 bio3d magrittr rPDBapi

Version History

11 tracked
new 3.0.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 3.0.1 ← 3.0.0 diff Mar 7, 2026
updated 3.0.0 ← 2.1.2 diff Mar 6, 2026
updated 2.1.2 ← 2.1.1 diff Oct 28, 2025
updated 2.1.1 ← 2.1 diff Oct 18, 2024
updated 2.1 ← 2.0 diff Sep 5, 2024
updated 2.0 ← 1.3 diff Sep 3, 2024
updated 1.3 ← 1.2 diff Jun 5, 2024
updated 1.2 ← 1.1 diff May 15, 2024
updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff Mar 28, 2024
new 1.0 Jan 16, 2024