Download and parse FAERS Quarterly Data files

faers(
  years,
  quarters,
  format = NULL,
  dir = getwd(),
  compress_dir = dir,
  handle_opts = list()
)

Arguments

years: An atomic integer indicates years for which data are required.
quarters: An atomic character, only "q1", "q2", "q3", and "q4" are allowed.
format: File format to used, only "ascii" and "xml" are availabe. Default: "ascii".
dir: The destination directory for any downloads. Defaults to current working dir.
compress_dir: A string specifies the directory to extract files to. It will be created if necessary.
handle_opts: Extra handle options passed to each request new_handle.

Value

A FAERSxml or FAERSascii object.

Examples

# you must change `dir`, as the file included in the package is sampled
data <- faers(2004, "q1",
    dir = system.file("extdata", package = "faers"),
    compress_dir = tempdir()
)
#> Finding 1 file already downloaded: aers_ascii_2004q1.zip