get_ClinicalCodes: Downloads clinical codes file from ClinicalCodes.org

In rOpenHealth/rClinicalCodes: R tools for integrating with the www.clinicalcodes.org repository

Description

Either specify the full path or the article id and codelist name If an article_id is supplied but no codelist_name, all codelists are downloaded and saved as a list

Usage

get_ClinicalCodes(url = NULL, article_id = NULL, codelist_name = NULL)

Arguments

url	character representing the url of a codelist download on www.clinicalcodes.org
article_id	integer representiong the id of a www.ClinicalCodes.org article
codelist_name	character representing a codelist name associated with an article on www.ClinicalCodes.org

Value

a dataframe of clinical codes or a list of dataframes of clinical codes

Examples

## Not run: 
# Get codelist from url:
angina_codes <- get_ClinicalCodes(
url = "https://clinicalcodes.rss.mhs.man.ac.uk/medcodes/article/6/codelist/angina/download/")
head(angina_codes)
# get codelist by id and name
depression_codes <- get_ClinicalCodes(article_id = 6, codelist_name = "depression")
head(depression_codes)
# Get all code lists for an article
codelists <- get_ClinicalCodes(article_id = 2)
sapply(codelists, nrow)

## End(Not run)

rOpenHealth/rClinicalCodes documentation built on May 26, 2019, 8:50 p.m.