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Query the BCPC Compendium of Pesticide Common Names https://pesticidecompendium.bcpc.org formerly known as Alan Woods Compendium of Pesticide Common Names

Usage

bcpc_query(
  query,
  from = c("name", "cas"),
  verbose = getOption("verbose"),
  type,
  ...
)

Arguments

query

character; search string

from

character; type of input ('cas' or 'name')

verbose

logical; print message during processing to console?

type

deprecated

...

additional arguments to internal utility functions

Value

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

Note

for from = 'cas' only the first matched link is returned. Please respect Copyright, Terms and Conditions https://pesticidecompendium.bcpc.org/legal.html!

References

Eduard Szöcs, Tamás Stirling, Eric R. Scott, Andreas Scharmüller, Ralf B. Schäfer (2020). webchem: An R Package to Retrieve Chemical Information from the Web. Journal of Statistical Software, 93(13). doi:10.18637/jss.v093.i13 .

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
bcpc_query('Fluazinam', from = 'name')
out <- bcpc_query(c('Fluazinam', 'Diclofop'), from = 'name')
out
# extract subactivity from object
sapply(out, function(y) y$subactivity[1])

# use CAS-numbers
bcpc_query("79622-59-6", from = 'cas')
} # }