retrieve_faersascii {faersquarterlydata}

Read FAERS ascii files

Description

Read ASCII files from a directory, removing the duplicates.

Usage

retrieve_faersascii(
  ascii_dir,
  cache_path = NULL,
  drug_indication_pattern = NULL,
  drug_pattern = NULL,
  primary_suspect = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

ascii_dir

directory path where ascii files are

cache_path

(optional) a string. Must have a ".Rdata" extension to save the read tabular formats in each loop.

drug_indication_pattern

(optional) a string.filter ADRs with a specific drug indication pattern (**stringr** sintax)

drug_pattern

(optional) a string. filter ADRs with a specific drug name pattern (**stringr** sintax)

primary_suspect

(optional) a string.

...

directory with duplicate information to be passed to get_duplicate_caseids

Value

A list with binded tibbles retrieved from files.