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revtools v0.2.2

Tools to support literature review and evidence synthesis in R, including import, de-duplication and interactive display of bibliographic data.

Example:

# install and load package
library(devtools)
install_github("mjwestgate/revtools")
library(revtools)

# import and explore some data
file_location<-system.file("extdata", "avian_ecology_bibliography.ris", package="revtools")
x<-read_bibliography(file_location)
summary(x) # show number of entries, sources, etc.
print(x) # show first 5 entries

start_review_window(x) # run interactive figure with shiny & plotly

# to reload a previously saved version
y<-readRDS("saved_object.rds")
start_review_window(y)

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Install

install.packages('revtools')

Monthly Downloads

705

Version

0.2.2

License

GPL-2

Maintainer

Martin J Westgate

Last Published

March 10th, 2018

Functions in revtools (0.2.2)

read_bibliography

Import bibliographic data
review_info-methods)

Methods for class 'review_info'
write_bibliography

Export imported bibliographic data as .bib or .ris formats
revtools-package

revtools: Tools to support reviews and evidence synthesis
bibliography-methods

Methods for class 'bibliography'
avian_ecology_bibliography

Bibliographic data from 20 papers on avian ecology
run_LDA

Calculate a topic model
bibliography-class

Description of class 'bibliography'
extract_unique_references

Create a de-duplicated data.frame
start_review_window

Interactive visualisation of bibliographic data
find_duplicates

Locate duplicated references within a data.frame
make_DTM

Construct a document-term matrix (DTM)
review_info-class

Description of class 'review_info'