This function scrapes the openFDA API for food, dietary supplement, and cosmetic adverse event reports

Usage

adverse_events(
  api_key,
  consumer.gender = NULL,
  consumer.age = NULL,
  consumer.age_unit = NULL,
  date_created = NULL,
  date_started = NULL,
  limit = NULL,
  outcomes = NULL,
  products.name_brand = NULL,
  products.industry_name = NULL,
  products.industry_code = NULL,
  reactions = NULL,
  report_number = NULL,
  search_mode = NULL
)

Arguments

api_key: Your free api key from openFDA website
consumer.gender: A way the FDA classifies a date
consumer.age: Description of product
consumer.age_unit: Date for which recall was initiated
date_created: The company recalling the product
date_started: The date the FDA issued the enforcement report for the product recall
limit: The number of rows to return for that query
outcomes: This gives the user flexibility to search for exact matches of inputs or any combination of inputs
products.name_brand: The status of the recall
products.industry_name: The date the recall was terminated
products.industry_code: The date the recall was terminated
reactions: The date the recall was terminated
report_number: The date the recall was terminated
search_mode: The way to search for the data

Value

A data frame with the returned results of the users query to the API

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
adverse_events(api_key = api_key, outcomes = "Hospitalization", date_created = "2020")
adverse_events(api_key = api_key, products.industry_name = "Food", date_started = "2021")
adverse_events(api_key = api_key, products.name_brand = "Lucky Charms")
} # }