search_synonym: Search for Synonyms
In patelm9/metaorite: metaorite Package

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also

This function performs a combination of searches using the search_mrconso_functions on a ‘concept'. The resultsets are then rejoined back onto the MRCONSO to get all possible strings. The direction is therefore from the 'concept' to the CUI it matches and then from the CUI back to all the STR values that belong to the CUI. The types of search to use depends on the 'concept'. For example, a very long gene name may not have an exact match, but may have very high yield ’string' matches because of the number of unique words. A 'like' match may be the least ideal since it casts a wide net in the search and the return may be to wide in breadth to search the use case.

search_synonym(
  conn,
  concept,
  schema = "mth",
  search_styles = c("exact", "string", "like"),
  split = " ",
  match_case = TRUE,
  cache_only = FALSE,
  skip_cache = FALSE,
  override_cache = FALSE
)

`conn`	Postgres connection
`concept`	Concept to be searched
`schema`	Metathesaurus schema
`search_styles`	One or more of "exact", "string", and/or "like" search styles that correspond with the `search_exact`, `search_string`, and `search_like` functions respectively.
`split`	Regular expression to split the concept on to generate words for this style of search. Defaults to a space.
`match_case`	If TRUE, both the MRCONSO STR column and the 'concept' argument are converted to lowercase.
`cache_only`	If TRUE, only the cache is loaded and database querying is skipped. If a cache did not exist for the query, a NULL will be returned.
`skip_cache`	If TRUE, the cache is skipped altogether. The database is directly queried and the resultset is not cached.
`override_cache`	If TRUE, the cache is not loaded, the database is directly queried and the resultset is cached, overwriting any existing cache that may have been present.

The results of the search will have all the fields from the MRCONSO Table with an additional Search Type column indicating what search type the CUI was the result of.

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