As per #82, some databases return summary records that contain (escaped) XML for some elements.
There is no indication as to which databases will produce these records (it seems to be mostly those associated with SRA), and I don't want to have rentrez guess this kind of thing (it would be better to have another pacakge deal specifically with certain data types). So, we should document the fact these elements contain the XML file returned by entrez_fetch and show how to extract that information in the vignette or wiki.
dwinter
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7 years ago
As per #82, some databases return summary records that contain (escaped) XML for some elements.
There is no indication as to which databases will produce these records (it seems to be mostly those associated with
SRA), and I don't want to haverentrezguess this kind of thing (it would be better to have another pacakge deal specifically with certain data types). So, we should document the fact these elements contain the XML file returned byentrez_fetchand show how to extract that information in the vignette or wiki.