disciplines: Mathematical discipline IDs

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Mathematical discipline IDs

Description

Map mathematical disciplines to IDs for use in searching for mathematicians.

Usage

disciplines(search = NULL)

Arguments

search

a character(1) string which will search within disciplines. This can be a regular expression search term if desired.

Value

Data frame, with columns:

id

the discipline ID, as required by search_id() when searching for a mathematician within a specific mathematical discipline;

discipline

the name of the discipline classification, per the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Examples

# Lookup the ID of any discipline involving the partial word "stat"
disciplines("stat")

# Use a regular expression to only exactly match the whole word Statistics and nothing else
disciplines("^statistics$")

# Use the above to search only for statisticians with the first name Louis
search_id(given = "Louis", discipline = disciplines("^statistics$")$id)

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