query search.dbgap("Jackson", no.browser = TRUE)

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query search.dbgap("Jackson", no.browser = TRUE) #12

Open gversmee opened 5 years ago

gversmee commented 5 years ago

This function is important to the tool, but only returns the URL of the dbgap page listing the studies. Would prefer to return a structured summary of those studies, so that it can be used in combination with other queries.

mikaeldusenne commented 5 years ago

for the implementation of the function returning tables using the Entrez NCBI API, what are the relevant informations to display? Also, should we only list studies or also Documents, variables (cf tab names of the tables displayed on their website) ? We could decide to display a "top N" (quickly) of each type of documents but I am not sure of the relevance of the different types.