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patentsview

An R client to the PatentsView API

Installation

You can get the stable version from CRAN:

install.packages("patentsview")

Or the development version from GitHub:

if (!"devtools" %in% rownames(installed.packages())) 
  install.packages("devtools")

devtools::install_github("ropensci/patentsview")

Basic usage

The PatentsView API provides an interface to a disambiguated version of USPTO. The patentsview R package provides one main function, search_pv(), to make it easy to interact with the API:

library(patentsview)

search_pv(query = '{"_gte":{"patent_date":"2007-01-01"}}')
#> $data
#> #### A list with a single data frame on a patent level:
#> 
#> List of 1
#>  $ patents:'data.frame': 25 obs. of  3 variables:
#>   ..$ patent_id    : chr [1:25] "10000000" ...
#>   ..$ patent_number: chr [1:25] "10000000" ...
#>   ..$ patent_title : chr [1:25] "Coherent LADAR using intra-pixel quadrature "..
#> 
#> $query_results
#> #### Distinct entity counts across all downloadable pages of output:
#> 
#> total_patent_count = 100,000

Learning more

Head over to the package’s webpage for more info, including:

• A getting started vignette for first-time users. The package was also introduced in an rOpenSci blog post.
• An in-depth tutorial on writing queries
• A list of basic examples
• Two examples of data applications (e.g., a brief analysis of the top assignees in the field of databases)

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.