ctrdata (version 1.16.0)

ctrOpenSearchPagesInBrowser: Open reigster to show query results or search page

Description

Open advanced search pages of register(s), or execute search in browser

Usage

ctrOpenSearchPagesInBrowser(url = "", register = "", copyright = FALSE)

Value

(String) Full URL corresponding to the shortened url

in conjunction with register if any, or invisibly

TRUE if no url is specified.

Arguments

url

of search results page to show in the browser. To open the browser with a previous search, the output of ctrGetQueryUrl or dbQueryHistory can be used. Can be left as empty string (default) to open the advanced search page of register.

register

Register(s) to open, "EUCTR", "CTGOV", "CTGOV2", "ISRCTN" or "CTIS". Default is empty string, and this open the advanced search page of the register(s).

copyright

(Optional) If set to TRUE, opens only the copyright pages of all registers.

Examples

# Open all and check copyrights before using registers
ctrOpenSearchPagesInBrowser(copyright = TRUE)

# Open specific register advanced search page
ctrOpenSearchPagesInBrowser(register = "CTGOV")
ctrOpenSearchPagesInBrowser(register = "CTGOV2")
ctrOpenSearchPagesInBrowser(register = "CTIS")
ctrOpenSearchPagesInBrowser(register = "EUCTR")
ctrOpenSearchPagesInBrowser(register = "ISRCTN")
ctrOpenSearchPagesInBrowser(url = "status=Ended", register = "CTIS")

# Open all queries that were loaded into demo collection
dbc <- nodbi::src_sqlite(
    dbname = system.file("extdata", "demo.sqlite", package = "ctrdata"),
    collection = "my_trials"
)

dbh <- dbQueryHistory(
    con = dbc
)

for (r in seq_len(nrow(dbh))) {
    ctrOpenSearchPagesInBrowser(dbh[r, ])
}