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rplos (version 0.4.1)

Interface to PLoS Journals search API.

Description

A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Public Library of Science journals for search.

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install.packages('rplos')

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0.4.1

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Maintainer

Scott Chamberlain

Last Published

July 22nd, 2014

Functions in rplos (0.4.1)

insertnones

Function to insert "none" character strings where NULL values found to faciliate combining results
plossubject

Search PLoS Journals subjects.
plos_fulltext

Get full text xml of PLOS papers given a DOI
searchplos

Base function to search PLoS Journals
check_response

Check response from PLOS, including status codes, server error messages, mime-type, etc.
plosviews

Search PLoS Journals by article views.
formatarticleurl

Format a URL for a specific article in a specific PLoS journal.
formatcrossref

Convert crossref XML into a bibentry object
journalnamekey

Get short keys for journals to use in searching specific journals.
plosfigtabcaps

Search PLoS Journals figure and table captions.
facetplos

Do faceted searches on PLOS Journals full-text content
plosword

Search results on a keyword over all fields in PLoS Journals.
rplos

Connect with PLoS API data
highplos

Do highlighted searches on PLOS Journals full-text content
plosabstract

Search PLoS Journals abstracts.
full_text_urls

Create urls for full text articles in PLOS journals.
plosauthor

Search PLoS Journals authors.
concat_todf

Concatenate author names, if present, used in other functions.
plostitle

Search PLoS Journals titles.
plot_throughtime

Plot results through time for serach results from PLoS Journals.
addmissing

Adds elements in a list that are missing because they were not returned in the PLoS API call.
crossref

Lookup article info via CrossRef with DOI.
highbrow

Browse highlighted fragments in your default browser.
plosfields

PLoS API fields to use for searching/retreiving data.