Issues

• entrez_fetch(parsed = TRUE) returns unparsed text when retmode is xml but rettype is not on the XML list

  bug
  ropensci/rentrez#236 · Filter by author samuelbharti opened on Sep 21, 2026
  

• Release 1.3.0

  upkeep
  ropensci/rentrez#235 · Filter by author samuelbharti opened on Sep 21, 2026
  

• entrez_fetch() returns NCBI's error message as if it were sequence data

  bug
  ropensci/rentrez#226 · Filter by author samuelbharti opened on Sep 20, 2026
  

• entrez_post() turns an NCBI error into a valid-looking web_history object

  bug
  ropensci/rentrez#227 · Filter by author samuelbharti opened on Sep 20, 2026
  

• entrez_search(retmode = "json", use_history = TRUE) returns an empty web_history

  bug
  ropensci/rentrez#223 · Filter by author samuelbharti opened on Sep 20, 2026
  1

  

• entrez_link(by_id = TRUE) returns the wrong data for four commands

  bug
  ropensci/rentrez#222 · Filter by author samuelbharti opened on Sep 20, 2026
  

• entrez_link() cannot detect missing IDs: NCBI returns links for IDs that do not exist

  api-changebug
  ropensci/rentrez#220 · Filter by author samuelbharti opened on Sep 20, 2026
  

• entrez_global_query() is broken: NCBI redirects egquery to an internal host

  api-changebugwait-for-ncbi
  ropensci/rentrez#217 · Filter by author samuelbharti opened on Sep 20, 2026
  

• NCBI has retired the popset database

  api-changebugdocumentation
  ropensci/rentrez#214 · Filter by author samuelbharti opened on Sep 20, 2026
  

• Assembly statistics is not available

  questions
  ropensci/rentrez#205 · Filter by author xinming-an opened on Jul 29, 2025
  1

  

• Wrong returns with biosample

  bug
  ropensci/rentrez#201 · Filter by author LiuPeng-nju opened on Apr 9, 2025
  2

  

• with_mock() is going away

  upkeep
  ropensci/rentrez#200 · Filter by author hadley opened on Jan 10, 2025
  

• Timeout Error only in loop

  bugrate-limiting
  ropensci/rentrez#198 · Filter by author chemoton opened on Nov 20, 2024
  1

  

• Help retrieving abstract and keywords

  questions
  ropensci/rentrez#197 · Filter by author ZuaniaColon opened on Oct 13, 2024
  

• genome DB is unavailable

  bugwait-for-ncbi
  ropensci/rentrez#196 · Filter by author karl-cottenie opened on Oct 11, 2024
  7

  

• Proximity operator in rentrez (possibly Feature Request)

  feature
  ropensci/rentrez#195 · Filter by author julieaaj opened on Oct 1, 2024
  1

  

• Random sample of large set of search results

  featurelarge-requests
  ropensci/rentrez#194 · Filter by author hlappen opened on Jul 6, 2024
  1

  

• Using web history instead of ids returns more results than expected

  buglarge-requests
  ropensci/rentrez#193 · Filter by author stitam opened on Jan 8, 2024
  5

  

• Download parts of a large sequence

  questions
  ropensci/rentrez#192 · Filter by author valkm2 opened on Dec 6, 2023
  

• how to get 'note graph' from FEATURES by entrez_summary

  questions
  ropensci/rentrez#190 · Filter by author trilisser opened on Jun 13, 2023
  

• Institution/organization info via rentrez

  questions
  ropensci/rentrez#189 · Filter by author trilisser opened on May 18, 2023
  4

  

• entrez_link returns inconsistent results

  bug
  ropensci/rentrez#188 · Filter by author xinf2 opened on Apr 26, 2023
  1

  

• Error in ans[[1]] : subscript out of bounds

  bug
  ropensci/rentrez#187 · Filter by author drumstick90 opened on Apr 19, 2023
  3

  

• multiple check_xml_errors when using entrez_link of protien IDs of Metagenomic assembled genomes from NCBI

  bug
  ropensci/rentrez#186 · Filter by author DeaconOfBiology opened on Mar 25, 2023
  2

  

• Search and fetch are providing the wrong data?

  large-requestsquestions
  ropensci/rentrez#185 · Filter by author maryemmaj opened on Jan 27, 2023
  3