cthist-package: cthist: Clinical Trial Registry History

In cthist: Clinical Trial Registry History

cthist: Clinical Trial Registry History

Description

Retrieves historical versions of clinical trial registry entries from https://ClinicalTrials.gov. Package functionality and implementation is documented in Carlisle (2022) \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1371/journal.pone.0270909")}.

Details

This package provides 3 functions for mass-downloading historical clinical trial registry entry data from ClinicalTrials.gov

clinicaltrials_gov_dates() downloads the dates on which clinical trial registry entries were updated from ClinicalTrials.gov

clinicaltrials_gov_version() downloads a specified historical version of a clinical trial registry entry from ClinicalTrials.gov

clinicaltrials_gov_download() mass-downloads clinical trial registry entry versions for one or many trials on ClinicalTrials.gov

Author(s)

Maintainer: Benjamin Gregory Carlisle [e-mail] (ORCID)

References

Carlisle, BG. Analysis of clinical trial registry entry histories using the novel R package cthist. medRxiv, 2022. doi: 10.1101/2022.01.20.22269538

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/bgcarlisle/cthist

• Report bugs at https://github.com/bgcarlisle/cthist/issues

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