oa_random: oa_fetch but for a random query

In openalexR: Getting Bibliographic Records from 'OpenAlex' Database Using 'DSL' API

oa_fetch but for a random query

Description

oa_fetch but for a random query

Usage

oa_random(
  entity = oa_entities(),
  output = c("tibble", "dataframe", "list"),
  endpoint = "https://api.openalex.org"
)

Arguments

entity	Character. Scholarly entity of the search. The argument can be one of c("works", "authors", "institutions", "keywords", "funders", "sources", "publishers", "topics"). If not provided, 'entity' is guessed from 'identifier'.
output	Character. Type of output, one of '"tibble"', '"dataframe"', '"list"', or '"raw"'. tibble a tibble tidy data dataframe a base data.frame tidy data list a list of parsed JSON contents raw a list of raw JSON strings (length depends on query)
endpoint	Character. URL of the OpenAlex Endpoint API server. Defaults to endpoint = "https://api.openalex.org".

Value

A data.frame or a list. One row or one element. Result of the random query. If you would like to select more than one random entity, say, 10, use 'options = list(sample = 10)' argument in 'oa_fetch'.

Examples

oa_random()

openalexR documentation built on April 11, 2025, 6:01 p.m.