vignettes/advanced-search.Rmd
advanced-search.Rmd
Unfortunately, the BacDive Web Service does not allow SQL-like queries for the content of specific fields within the strain’s datasets. If you find the functionality explained in BacDive-ing in too limited, please try the following, semi-automatic approach to using BacDiveR.
Overview of the possible fields to query and their parameters (contains, exact, begins/ends with)
Advanced search results
Copy the URL of the results page from your browser’s adress bar. Alternatively, copy it from the “Download list of BacDive Ids” link to the top right of the “hits” list.
Paste the copied URL into a call to the retrieve_search_results()
function.
Enjoy the list of downloaded datasets, just as you would after using retrieve_data(searchTerm = ..., searchType = ...)
.