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In cthist: Clinical Trial Registry History

cthist 2.1.4

• Fix bug in which start date would erroneously return NA in some cases

cthist 2.1.3

• Add support for downloading the latest version of a clinical trial only

cthist 2.1.2

• Fix bug where missing start dates in trial record would produce an error

cthist 2.1.1

• Fix minor errors in documentation
• Fix bug where missing primary completion dates in trial record would produce an error

cthist 2.1.0

• Added download for organization study ID and secondary ID's
• Added unit tests for all functions added since v 1.4.2

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cthist 2.0.1

• Minor changes to documentation to better reflect downloaded data

cthist 2.0.0

• Upgrade to allow compatibility with 2023 ClinicalTrials.gov website re-write

cthist 1.4.2

• Temporary fix of bugs introduced by ClinicalTrials.gov moving to their new website design (changed URL links to classic.clinicaltrials.gov)

cthist 1.4.1

• Fixed bug where cthist sometimes can't connect to ClinicalTrials.gov by replacing the statement that included RCurl::url.exists() with one that uses httr::http_error() instead
• Removed polite dependency and functionality

cthist 1.4.0

• Removed drks.de-related functions
• Added polite variable to allow disabling of "polite" downloading for debugging purposes
• Removed deprecated .data$n syntax

cthist 1.3.0

• Added "results posted" (indicates whether study results have been posted)
• Added "references" to clinicaltrials_gov_version() (citations, links and available IPD/Information) and drks_de_version() (Trial Publications, Results and other Documents)

cthist 1.2.1

• Implemented checks in clinicaltrials_gov_download() and drks_de_download() that the Internet resources are available and fails gracefully in the case that they're not

cthist 1.2.0

• Added status_change_only option to clinicaltrials_gov_dates() function to allow for downloading only the dates on which a trial's Recruitment Status changed

cthist 1.1.0

• Added "why stopped" field
• Remove superfluous white space from overall status field
• Fixed bug that occurs in rare cases (version has no overall status)

cthist 1.0.1

• Fix bug where cthist does not capture outcome measures in versions posted after results are posted.

cthist 1.0.0

• Re-implemented functions that access ClinicalTrials.gov or DRKS.de with the polite R package to ensure that the sites' rules regarding scraping are observed, and to limit the number of requests
• Fix bug where non-English locale prevents correct parsing of month names
• Improvements to error-catching during download
• New columns indicating the precision of dates in the original data source
• All functions now check that input is well-formed before executing and provide informative errors otherwise
• clinicaltrials_gov_download() and drks_de_download() now return a data frame of results if output_filename is not specified
• clinicaltrials_gov_version() and drks_de_version() now return named lists rather than vectors
• Added default version numbers to clinicaltrials_gov_version() and drks_de_version()
• More extensive unit testing
• Fix bug in retrieving "gender based" in clinicaltrials_gov_version()
• Add "quiet" downloading option
• Improved documentation

cthist 0.1.4

• Fix DRKS bug where post-completion records sometimes contain more than one li.deadline node, causing formatting errors

cthist 0.1.3

• Fix DRKS bug where multiple contact affiliation nodes caused download to produce an error

cthist 0.1.2

• Updated DRKS error message to be more informative on failure
• Updated unit tests to expect graceful error on failure

cthist 0.1.1

• Renamed function clinicaltrials_gov_version_dates to clinicaltrials_gov_dates for brevity
• Renamed function clinicaltrials_gov_version_data to clinicaltrials_gov_version for brevity
• Renamed function drks_de_version_dates to drks_de_dates for brevity
• Renamed function drks_de_version_data to drks_de_version for brevity

cthist 0.1.0

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Added function clinicaltrials_gov_version_dates to download dates on which a ClinicalTrials.gov registry entry is updated
• Added function clinicaltrials_gov_version_data to download registry data for a specific historical version of a clinical trial registry entry from ClinicalTrials.gov
• Added function clinicaltrials_gov_download to mass-download all historical versions of a set of ClinicalTrials.gov registry entry
• Added function drks_de_version_dates to download dates on which a DRKS.de registry entry is updated
• Added function drks_de_version_data to download registry data for a specific historical version of a clinical trial registry entry from DRKS.de
• Added function drks_de_download to mass-download all historical versions of a set of DRKS.de registry entry

cthist documentation built on Nov. 5, 2023, 1:09 a.m.