cochrane: Import Data from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)

The Cochrane Library is probably the largest body of evidence in health care. This packages loads datasets from systematic reviews from https://www.cochranelibrary.com that include all the study data, effect estimates, and the combined effect estimates from meta-analyses.

User guide

Installation from github

remotes::install_github("schw4b/cochrane", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Loading package

library(cochrane)

Please cite this package in your research output

citation("cochrane")

Open vignette

vignette("cochrane")

Developer guide

Package building

export LC_CTYPE='C'

make clean
cd cochrane; R -e 'devtools::document()'; cd ..
make build
make file=cochrane_0.1.tar.gz check

Install package locally

detach("package:swt", unload=TRUE)

R CMD REMOVE cochrane
R CMD INSTALL cochrane_0.1.tar.gz