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lbsGetInfoAuthors: Retrieve author information

Description

Retrieves basic information on given authors.

Usage

lbsGetInfoAuthors(conn, idAuthors)

Value

A list of authorinfo objects, that is lists with the following components:

  • IdAuthor --- numeric; author's identifier in the table Biblio_Authors,

  • Name --- character; author's name.

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

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).

See Also

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