imclab/rplos

Wrapper for the PLoS Journals API

rplos

Install

You can get this package at CRAN here, or install it within R by doing

install.packages("rplos")

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

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

What is this?

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

Information

Get your PLoS API key here

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

PLoS API documentation here

Crossref API documentation here and here

Quick start

Search for the term ecology, and return id (DOI) and publication date, limiting to 5 items

searchplos('ecology', 'id,publication_date', limit = 5)

                            id     publication_date
1 10.1371/journal.pone.0059813 2013-04-24T00:00:00Z
2 10.1371/journal.pone.0001248 2007-11-28T00:00:00Z
3 10.1371/journal.pone.0017342 2011-03-09T00:00:00Z
4 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020072 2004-03-16T00:00:00Z
5 10.1371/journal.pone.0054689 2013-01-23T00:00:00Z

Visualize word use across articles

plosword(list('monkey','Helianthus','sunflower','protein','whale'), vis = 'TRUE')