The nihexporter R package provides a minimal set of data from the NIH EXPORTER database, which contains information on NIH biomedical research funding from 1985-2024.
To keep the package lightweight, many details are omitted but can be easily retrieved from NIH RePORTER.
Installation
Install the package from github with:
# install.packages('pak')
pak::pak("rnabioco/nihexporter")⚠️Note: this is a large data package (>50 Mb) and will take some time to download and install. ⚠️
Tables
projects: provides data on funded projects by NIH across all years.projects_min: a minimal set of project data from 2006-2024. Contains both direct and indirect costs.project_pis: links project numbers (project.num) to principal investigator IDs (pi.id).publinks: links Pubmed IDs (pmid) to project numbers (project.num).publications: provides information for individual publications, including their Relative Citation Ratio values (rcr).patents: links project IDs (project.num) topatent.id.clinical_studies: links project IDs to associated clinical trials.project_io: pre-computedn.pubs,n.patentsandproject.costfor eachproject.num.abstract_words: tokenized words from grant abstracts.
Functions
rcr()retrieves Relative Citation Ratios and associated information for PubMed IDs.nihexporter_sqlite()can be used to cache data in a local SQLite database.