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