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When working with data on chemical substances, we often need a reliable
link between the data and the chemical identity of the substances. The R
-package **chents** provides a way to define an R object corresponding to
-a chemically defined substances (“chemical entity”) and to collect
-related information.
+package ‘chents’ provides a way to define an R object corresponding to a
+chemically defined substances, i.e. a chemical entity and to collect
+related information. If Python and ‘RDKit’ (\> 2015.03) are installed
+and configured for use with ‘reticulate’, some basic chemoinformatics
+functions like the calculation of molecular weight and plotting of
+chemical structures in R graphics are available.
+
+## Usage
When first defining a chemical entity, some chemical information is
retrieved from the [PubChem](https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) website
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plot(caffeine)
```
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If you have a so-called ISO common name of a pesticide active
ingredient, you can use the ‘pai’ class derived from the ‘chent’ class,
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plot(delta)
```
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Additional information can be read from a local .yaml file. This
information can be leveraged e.g. by the

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