Load and Use 'MedDRA' Data for Clinical Trials

'MedDRA' data is used for defining adverse events in clinical studies. You can load and merge the data for use in categorizing the adverse events using this package. The package requires the data licensed from 'MedDRA' < https://www.meddra.org/>.

meddra.read

The goal of meddra.read is to read in the MedDRA source distribution files into a data.frame usable in R.

Installation

You can install the development version of meddra.read like so:

remotes::install_github("billdenney/meddra.read")

Example

Here is how to load MedDRA data. You must have a directory with the MedAscii and SeqAscii distribution files, they are not allowed to be publicly distributed.

library(meddra.read)
meddra_raw <- read_meddra("/path/to/meddra_dist")
meddra_data <- join_meddra(meddra_raw)