In bgreenwell/nppesapi: An R Wrapper to the NPPES API

nppesapi

What is nppesapi?

nppesapi queries the NPPES API with an R wrapper. It allows systems to access NPPES public data in real-time, rather than through batched uploads. The API retrieves data from NPPES daily.

For help with the nppesapi R-package, there is a vignette available in the /vignettes folder.

Installation

The package can be installed with

devtools::install_github("bgreenwell/nppesapi")

After installation, the package can be loaded into R.

library(nppesapi)

Using nppesapi

The main function in the nppesapi package is nppes_api(). It uses a query string acceptable to the NPPES API and returns the response in a formatted object. This is essentially limited only by the API. One important limitiation is 200 responses. This can be worked around with multiple queries and use of "limit=200&skip=200", etc.

nppes_api("city=dayton")
nppes_api("number=1124021324")

A second function is npi_lookup(). It looks up a specific field for a list of NPIs. This is limited to specialty at the moment. It can query any number of NPIs.

npi_lookup(c(1649246182, 1831117050), field = "specialty")
npi_lookup(c(1942218276, 1275768434, "1124042692", 1013913409, "1932348661"))

Bug reports

Report bugs as issues on the GitHub repository

Contributors

• Brandon Greenwell
• Dan Garmat

bgreenwell/nppesapi documentation built on May 25, 2019, 3:23 p.m.