CITAN (version 2011.08-1)

lbsGetInfoAuthors: Retrieve author information

Description

Retrieves basic information on given authors.

Usage

lbsGetInfoAuthors(conn, idAuthors)

Arguments

conn

a connection object as produced by lbsConnect.

idAuthors

a numeric or integer vector with author identifiers (see column IdAuthor in the table Biblio_Authors).

Value

• A list of authorinfo objects, that is lists with the following components:
  • IdAuthor--- numeric; author's identifier in the tableBiblio_Authors,
  • Name--- character; author's name.

See Also

lbsSearchAuthors, lbsSearchDocuments, lbsGetInfoDocuments, as.character.authorinfo, print.authorinfo,

Examples

#' conn <- dbBiblioConnect("Bibliometrics.db");
## ...
id <- lbsSearchAuthors(conn, c("Smith%", "Knuth D.E.", "V_n %"));
lbsGetInfoAuthors(conn, id);
## ...