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ctrdata for aggregating and analysing clinical trials

The package ctrdata provides functions for retrieving (downloading) information on clinical trials from public registers, and for aggregating and analysing this information; it can be used for the

EU Clinical Trials Register (“EUCTR”, https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/)
ClinicalTrials.gov (“CTGOV”, https://clinicaltrials.gov/)
ISRCTN (https://www.isrctn.com/)

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Install

install.packages('ctrdata')

Monthly Downloads

813

Version

1.6.0

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Ralf Herold

Last Published

April 14th, 2025

Functions in ctrdata (1.6.0)

dbFindIdsUniqueTrials

Deduplicate records to provide unique clinical trial identifiers

Extract information of interest (e.g., endpoint) from long data frame of protocol- or result-related trial information as returned by dfTrials2Long

Extract trial information into long format

dfListExtractKey

Extract named element(s) from list(s) into long-format data frame

dbCTRAnnotateQueryRecords

dbQueryAnnotateRecords

ctrLoadQueryIntoDbEuctr

ctrLoadQueryIntoDbEuctr

ctrdata: Overview on functions

dfMergeTwoVariablesRelevel

Merge two variables into one, optionally map values to new levels

ctrLoadQueryIntoDbIsrctn

ctrLoadQueryIntoDbIsrctn

dbCTRLoadJSONFiles

dbCTRLoadJSONFiles

dbGetFieldsIntoDf

Create data frame by extracting specified fields from database collection

ctrOpenSearchPagesInBrowser

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

Show the history of queries that were loaded into a database

dbCTRUpdateQueryHistory

dbCTRUpdateQueryHistory

Function to set proxy

installFindBinary

Check availability of binaries installed locally

dfFindUniqueEuctrRecord

Select single trial record from records of different EU Member States

installCygwinWindowsDoInstall

Convenience function to install a minimal cygwin environment under MS Windows, including perl, sed and php

Find names of fields in the database collection

installCygwinWindowsTest

Convenience function to test for working cygwin installation

Change type of field based on name of field

ctrFindActiveSubstanceSynonyms

Find synonyms of an active substance

Extract query parameters and register name from input or from clipboard into which the URL of a register search was copied

ctrGetQueryUrlFromBrowser

Import from clipboard the URL of a search in one of the registers

ctrLoadQueryIntoDb

Retrieve or update information on clinical trials from register and store in database

Annotate ctrdata function return values

ctrLoadQueryIntoDbCtgov

ctrLoadQueryIntoDbCtgov

ctrConvertToJSON

ctrConvertToJSON

Check and prepare nodbi connection object for ctrdata