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faers

R interface for FDA Adverse Event Reporting System

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.8.0

The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) is a database used for the spontaneous reporting of adverse events and medication errors related to human drugs and therapeutic biological products. faers pacakge serves as the interface between the FAERS database and R. Furthermore, faers pacakge offers a standardized approach for performing pharmacovigilance analysis.

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("faers")

Details

MaintainerYun Peng <yunyunp96@163.com>
AuthorYun Peng [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2801-3332>), YuXuan Song [aut], Caipeng Qin [aut], JiaXing Lin [aut]
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/WangLabCSU/faers
Downloads rank274
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsBiomedicalInformatics, DataImport, Pharmacogenomics, Software

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)

Imports: BiocParallel, brio, cli, curl (>= 6.0.0), data.table, httr2 (>= 1.0.0), MCMCpack, methods, openEBGM, rlang, rvest, tools, utils, vroom, xml2

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