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CITAN (version 2014.12-1)

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.
    • AuthorGroup--- character; author group (used to merge author records).

See Also

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

Examples

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

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