rClinicalCodes (version 1.0.1)

get_ClinicalCodes: Downloads clinical codes file from ClinicalCodes.org

Description

Either specify the full path or the article id and codelist name If an article_id is supplied but no codelist_name, all codelists are downloaded and saved as a list

Usage

get_ClinicalCodes(url = NULL, article_id = NULL, codelist_name = NULL)

Arguments

url

character representing the url of a codelist download on www.clinicalcodes.org

article_id

integer representiong the id of a www.ClinicalCodes.org article

codelist_name

character representing a codelist name associated with an article on www.ClinicalCodes.org

Value

a dataframe of clinical codes or a list of dataframes of clinical codes

Examples

## Not run: 
# # Get codelist from url:
# angina_codes <- get_ClinicalCodes(
# url = "https://clinicalcodes.rss.mhs.man.ac.uk/medcodes/article/6/codelist/angina/download/")
# head(angina_codes)
# # get codelist by id and name
# depression_codes <- get_ClinicalCodes(article_id = 6, codelist_name = "depression")
# head(depression_codes)
# # Get all code lists for an article
# codelists <- get_ClinicalCodes(article_id = 2)
# sapply(codelists, nrow)
# ## End(Not run)