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lbsDescriptiveStats: Perform preliminary analysis of data in a Local Bibliometric Storage

Description

Performs preliminary analysis of data in a Local Bibliometric Storage by calculating some basic descriptive statistics and drawing plots. We may restrict the data to any selected document types or a single survey.

Usage

lbsDescriptiveStats(conn, documentTypes, surveyDescription,
    which=(1L:7L), main="", ask=(prod(par("mfcol")) < length(which) &&
    dev.interactive()), ..., cex.caption=1)

Arguments

conn
a connection object as produced by lbsConnect.
documentTypes
character vector or NULL; specifies document types to restrict to; a combination of Article, Article in Press, Book, Conference Paper, Editorial, Erratum, Let
surveyDescription
single character string or NULL; survey to restrict to or NULL for no restriction.
which
if a subset of the plots is required, specify a subset of the numbers 1:7.
main
title to each plot-in addition to default captions.
ask
logical; if TRUE then the user is asked to press return before each plot.
...
additional graphical parameters, see plot.default.
cex.caption
controls the size of default captions.

Details

Plot types (accessed with which):
  • 1--- "Document types",
  • 2--- "Publication years",
  • 3--- "Citations per document",
  • 4--- "Citations of cited documents per type",
  • 5--- "Number of pages per document type",
  • 6--- "Categories of documents" (based od source categories),
  • 7--- "Documents per author".

The user interaction scheme is inspired by the plot.lm code.

See Also

plot.default, lbsConnect

Examples

Run this code
conn <- lbsConnect("Bibliometrics.db");
## ...
lbsDescriptiveStats(conn, surveyDescription="Scientometrics",
documentTypes=c("Article", "Note", "Report", "Review", "Short Survey"));
## ...
dbDisconnect(conn);

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