An active substance can be identified by a recommended international
nonproprietary name (INN), a trade or product name, or a company code(s).
Retrieves the substances which are searched for by the register
'ClinicalTrials.Gov' for a given active substance.
Usage
ctrFindActiveSubstanceSynonyms(activesubstance = "")
Arguments
- activesubstance
An active substance, in an atomic character vector
Value
A character vector of the active substance (input parameter) and
synonyms, or NULL if active substance was not found and may be invalid
Examples
if (FALSE) {
ctrFindActiveSubstanceSynonyms(activesubstance = "imatinib")
# [1] "imatinib" "gleevec" "sti 571" "glivec" "CGP 57148" "st1571"
}