Connect with PLoS API data

Connect with PLoS API data

Description

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.

Details

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/