alm_datepub: Get the date when the article was published.

In alm: R Client for the Lagotto Altmetrics Platform

Description

Get the date when the article was published.

Usage

alm_datepub(doi = NULL, pmid = NULL, pmcid = NULL, wos = NULL,
  scp = NULL, url = NULL, get = NULL, key = NULL,
  api_url = "http://alm.plos.org/api/v5/articles", ...)

Arguments

doi	Digital object identifier for an article in PLoS Journals (character)
pmid	PubMed object identifier (numeric)
pmcid	PubMed Central object identifier (numeric)
wos	Web of Science identifier (character)
scp	Scopus identifier (character)
url	Canonical URL (character)
get	Get year, month, or day; if unspecified, whole date returned.
key	your PLoS API key, either enter, or loads from .Rprofile (character)
api_url	API endpoint, defaults to http://alm.plos.org/api/v3/articles (character)
...	optional additional curl options (debugging tools mostly)

Value

Date when article was published.

References

See a tutorial/vignette for alm at http://ropensci.org/tutorials/alm_tutorial.html

Examples

## Not run: 
alm_datepub(doi='10.1371/journal.pone.0026871')
alm_datepub('10.1371/journal.pone.0026871', get='year')

# Provide more than one DOI
dois <- c('10.1371/journal.pone.0026871','10.1371/journal.pone.0048868',
		'10.1371/journal.pone.0048705','10.1371/journal.pone.0048731')
alm_datepub(doi=dois, get="month")

## End(Not run)

alm documentation built on Jan. 15, 2017, 3:22 p.m.