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.
• 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