rplos provides a wrapper to the PLoS Search API and the Article-Level metrics API. More information about each function can be found in its help documentation.
rplos functions
Most rplos functions make web calls (using the RCurl package), and either parse xml (using the XML package) or json (using the RJSONIO package) results.
PLoS API keys
Get your PLoS API key here: http://api.plos.org/. Put
your API key in your .Rprofile file by adding
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/
Tutorials
See the rOpenSci website for a tutorial: http://ropensci.org/tutorials/rplos-tutorial/