buildPubMedAbst {annotate} | R Documentation

## A function to generate an instantiation of a pubMedAbst class

### Description

This function will take in a XML tree object and will create an instance of a pubMedAbst class. This instance is returned to the caller.

### Usage

      buildPubMedAbst(xml)

### Arguments

`xml` | A XMLTree object that corresponds to a Pubmed abstract.

### Value

This function returns an instantiation of a pubMedAbst object to the caller.

### Author(s)

Jeff Gentry

### See Also

`pubmed`,`genbank`

### Examples

       x <- pubmed("9695952","8325638","8422497")
       a <- xmlRoot(x)
       numAbst <- length(xmlChildren(a))
       absts <- list()
       for (i in 1:numAbst) {
          absts[[i]] <- buildPubMedAbst(a[[i]])
       }

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