rclinicaltrials-package:
An interface to the clinicaltrials.gov API
Description
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world. Users can search for information about and results from those trials. This package provides a set of functions to interact with the search and download features. Results are downloaded to temporary directories and returned as R objects.
Details
clinicaltrials_search searches and returns basic study information.
clinicaltrials_count counts the number of trials that satisfy a specific query.
clinicaltrials_download downloads the set of trials that satisfy a query, which is passed as a string to the function. See advanced_search_terms for information about the search terms.