On 12/18/07, David Winsemius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Winsemius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > "Armin Goralczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >> I tried the above function with simple search terms and it worked > >> fine for me (also more output thanks to Martin's post) but when I use > >> search terms attributed to certain fields, i.e. with [au] or [ta], I > >> get the following error message: > >>> pm.srch() > >> 1: "laryngeal neoplasms[mh]" > >> 2: > > > I am wondering if you used spaces, rather than "+"'s? If so then you > > may want your function to do more gsub-processing of the input string. > > I tried my theory that one would need "+"'s instead of spaces, but > disproved it. Spaces in the input string seems to produce acceptable > results on my WinXP/R.2.6.1/RGui system even with more complex search > strings. > > -- >
It's not the spaces, the problem is the tag (sorry that I didn't specify this), or maybe the string []. I am working on a Mac OS X 10.4 with R version 2.6. Is it maybe a string conversion problem? In the following warning strings in the html adress seem to be different: Fehler in .Call("RS_XML_ParseTree", as.character(file), handlers, as.logical(ignoreBlanks), : error in creating parser for http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?db=pubmed&term=laryngeal neoplasms[mh] I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http%3A//eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi%3Fdb=pubmed&term=laryngeal%20neoplasms%5Bmh%5D" -- Armin Goralczyk, M.D. -- Universitätsmedizin Göttingen Abteilung Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie Rudolf-Koch-Str. 40 39099 Göttingen -- Dept. of General Surgery University of Göttingen Göttingen, Germany -- http://www.chirurgie-goettingen.de ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.