rplos

You can get this package at CRAN here: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rplos/.

Another option to install is install_github within Hadley's devtools package.

install.packages("devtools")
require(devtools)
install_github("rplos", "rOpenSci")
require(rplos)

This set of functions/package will access full text articles from the Public Library of Science journals using their API.

Get your PLoS API key here: http://api.plos.org/

Put your API key in your .Rprofile file using exactly this: options(PlosApiKey = “YOURPLOSAPIKEY”), and the functions within this package will be able to use your API key without you having to enter it every time you run a search.

rplos tutorial at rOpenSci website here: http://ropensci.org/tutorials/rplos-tutorial/

Visit our GitHub hosted website here: http://ropensci.github.com/rplos/

Help topics

Other

  • almdatepub
    Get the date when the article was published.
  • almdateupdated
    Get the date when article was last updated.
  • almplosallviews
    Get PLoS altmetrics as xml, json, or csv.
  • almplotallviews
    Feed output of almplosallviews to this function to plot results.
  • almpubmedcentid
    Get PubMed Central article ID by inputting the doi for the article.
  • almpubmedid
    Get PubMed article ID by inputting the doi for the article.
  • almtitle
    Get title of article by inputting the doi for the article.
  • almtotcites
    Alt-metrics total citation points from all sources
  • almupdated
    Date when alt-metrics for the article (by DOI) data was last updated.
  • articlelength
    Get article length of single paper by DOI, or of many papers as histogram.
  • crossref
    Lookup article info via CrossRef with DOI.
  • 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.
  • plosabstract
    Search PLoS Journals abstracts.
  • plosauthor
    Search PLoS Journals authors.
  • plosfields
    PLoS API fields to use for searching/retreiving data.
  • plosfigtabcaps
    Search PLoS Journals figure and table captions.
  • plossubject
    Search PLoS Journals subjects.
  • plostitle
    Search PLoS Journals titles.
  • plosviews
    Search PLoS Journals by article views.
  • plosword
    Search results on a keyword over all fields in PLoS Journals.
  • plot_throughtime
    Plot results through time for serach results from PLoS Journals.
  • rplos(rplos-package)
    Connect with PLoS API data
  • searchplos
    Base function to search PLoS Journals

Dependencies

  • Depends: ggplot2
  • Imports: ggplot2, RCurl, RJSONIO, XML, plyr, stringr, reshape2, googleVis
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