search_UMLS: Search the UMLS.

Description Usage Arguments Value

Description

This allows for searching of the UMLS. The API parameters correspond to those on the NLM website.

Usage

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search_UMLS(search, inputType = "sourceUi", includeObsolete = FALSE,
  includeSuppressible = FALSE, sabs = NULL, searchType = "words")

Arguments

search

The search input.

inputType

The type of input. Can be one of 'atom', 'code','sourceConcept','sourceDescriptor','sourceUi' to obtain a valid response.

includeObsolete

Whether or not to include obsolete results.

includeSuppressible

Whether or not to include suppressible results.

sabs

Source vocabularies to search. A list of elements from the valid source vocabularies.

searchType

Type of search. Can be one of 'exact','words','leftTruncation', 'rightTruncation','approximate', 'normalizedString'.

Value

A list of results.


mpancia/rUMLS documentation built on May 23, 2019, 6:26 a.m.