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faers

This is the released version of faers; for the devel version, see faers.

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19

R interface for FDA Adverse Event Reporting System


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

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.

Author: Yun Peng [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-2801-3332 , YuXuan Song [aut], Caipeng Qin [aut], JiaXing Lin [aut]

Maintainer: Yun Peng <yunyunp96 at 163.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("faers")):

Yun Peng, YuXuan Song, Caipeng Qin, JiaXing Lin. faers: R interface for FDA Adverse Event Reporting System. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.faers, R package version 1.8.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/faers.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:

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

BiocManager::install("faers")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("faers")
FAERS-Pharmacovigilance HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText
LICENSEText

Details

biocViews BiomedicalInformatics, DataImport, Pharmacogenomics, Software
Version1.8.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.19 (R-4.4) (2.5 years)
License MIT + file LICENSE
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
System Requirements
URL
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/WangLabCSU/faers
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package faers_1.8.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) faers_1.8.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) faers_1.8.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) faers_1.8.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/faers
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/faers
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/faers/
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