README.md

In esm-ispm-unibe-ch/nmadata: Network Meta-Analysis Database API

nmadb - network meta-analysis database

R package for accessing ISPM's database of Network meta-analyses. Provides the database table for quering and access to individual network data.

Installation for usage

Required CRAN packages: - devtools install.packages("devtools") - readxl install.packages("readxl")

Non-CRAN packages - dataformatter

library(devtools)
install_github("esm-ispm-unibe-ch/dataformatter")
install_github("esm-ispm-unibe-ch/nmadata")

Load nmadb

library(nmadb)

Listing networks

• The database is exported as a data.frame by the getNMADB() function. so one could do catalog = getNMADB()
• nmadatanames(catalog) gives refid_autor's name_year of networks in catalog
• listVerified(): get all records with usable datasets checked with netmeta

Download individual networks

• readByID = function(refid,format="long",path) you can choose the format data will be exported, available formats are long (one treatment per row) and wide (one comparison per row), for networks being reported in iv format readByID outputs iv

CAVEAT

The validity of the database is not guaranteed -- NOT INTENDED FOR REVIEWS

esm-ispm-unibe-ch/nmadata documentation built on Jan. 19, 2021, 11:08 a.m.