Table of Contents Introduction Installation rJava XML RNCBI

With this package it is possible to access data from the NCBI Webservice inside R and use this data for further processing. The package provides the returned data in the form of a list object. This list can be inspected further, see the [Examples] for more details.

Installation of the package is quite easy as it doesn't need to compile anything. The only precondition is to provide Java 5 or higher.
To successfully install the RNCBI package the following packages are necessary.

To install this package, simply type

into the R console. Further informations on this package can be found at the rJava site.

If you are on a unix system, make sure R was configured with Java support.

To do this without re-installing R do

on the command line, maybe root privileges are required to do this.

This also can be installed with the package system from R, simply type

Further informations can be found on this site.

The package itself can be installed from CRAN directly. To do this inside R type: