patstatr

patstatr is a simple R package that allow to quickly set up raw PATSTAT Biblio dataset (tested on 2017 autumn edition) and provides couple of convenience tools to use it as if all data is in your RAM (using patstatr.filter).

Installation

## Loads devtools and installs it if not yet installed
if (!require("devtools", character.only = TRUE)) {
    install.packages("devtools", repos = 'http://cloud.r-project.org')
    library("devtools", character.only = TRUE)
}
## Installs and loads patviewer
install_github("stasvlasov/patstatr")
library("patstatr")

Usage

Available functions:

`patstatr.save.rds`	Reads PatentsView .tsv files and saves them to .rds (also optional in batches)
`patstatr.filter`	Filter tables of PatentsView.org bulk data (same usage as dplyr)