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R: Query http://www.alanwood.net/pesticides

aw_query

R Documentation

Query http://www.alanwood.net/pesticides

Description

Query Alan Woods Compendium of Pesticide Common Names http://www.alanwood.net/pesticides

Usage

aw_query(query, type = c("commonname", "cas"), verbose = TRUE, idx = NULL)

Arguments

`query`	character; search string
`type`	character; type of input ('cas' or 'commonname')
`verbose`	logical; print message during processing to console?
`idx`	data.frame; index to use. If NULL (default) the internal index `aw_idx` is used. To rebuild the index use `build_aw_idx`.

Value

A list of eight entries: common-name, status, preferredd IUPAC Name, IUPAC Name, cas, formula, activity, subactivity, inchikey, inchi and source url.

Note

for type = 'cas' only the first matched link is returned. Please respect Copyright, Terms and Conditions http://www.alanwood.net/pesticides/legal.html!

Author(s)

Eduard Szoecs, eduardszoecs@gmail.com

Examples

## Not run: 
aw_query('Fluazinam', type = 'commonname')
out <- aw_query(c('Fluazinam', 'Diclofop'), type = 'com')
out
# extract subactivity from object
sapply(out, function(y) y$subactivity[1])

# use CAS-numbers
aw_query("79622-59-6", type = 'cas')

## End(Not run)