CITAN (version 2011.08-1)

lbsSearchAuthors: Find authors meeting given criteria

Description

Finds authors by name.

Usage

lbsSearchAuthors(conn, names.like)

Arguments

conn

a connection object as produced by lbsConnect.

names.like

a character vector of SQL-LIKE patterns to match authors' names.

Value

• Integer vector of authors' identifiers which match at least one of given SQL-LIKE patterns.

Details

names.like is a set of search patterns in an SQL LIKE format, i.e. an underscore _ matches a single character and a percent sign % matches any set of characters. The search is case-insensitive.

See Also

lbsGetInfoAuthors, lbsSearchDocuments, lbsGetInfoDocuments, lbsFindDuplicateAuthors

Examples

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