createGoogleURL: Create a URL link to Google patents
In kamilien1/patentr: A Toolbox for Analyzing Patent Data

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Create a URL string to link you to Google Patents.

By concatenating the country code, publication number, and kind code, you can generate a URL to link you to google patents for further exploration. This feature is especially useful when browsing the data in a spreadsheet or in a Shiny app. It is also useful for extracting data from the HTML content.

As each website (Google, lens.org, sumobrain.com, etc..) has a different method for generating patent URLs, these functions are website-specific.

The original Google patents version still works as of March 2017 and the googleURL value is https://www.google.com/patents/. This older version may be easier to extract data.

1 2	createGoogleURL(countryCode, pubNum, kindCode, googleURL = "https://patents.google.com/patent/", lang = "en")

`countryCode`	A character vector of the country code of the document. Typically a two-letter character.
`pubNum`	A character vector of the numeric portion of a publication number.
`kindCode`	character vector of the kind code of a document. If not available, enter a blank string "".
`googleURL`	A character string of the URL to Google Patents, with working default value.
`lang`	The language you want to read the patent, default set to "en" english.

A character vector of properly formatted URL strings.

acars$kindCode <- extractKindCode(acars$docNum)
acars$pubName <- extractPubNumber(acars$docNum)
acars$googleURL <- createGoogleURL(countryCode = acars$countryCode, 
pubNum = acars$pubNum, kindCode =acars$kindCode)
head(acars$googleURL)