googleCite: Workhorse function to extract information from google...

In muschellij2/googleCite: Google Citation

Description

This function takes in the url from a person's Google Citation page and returns a data.frame of all the information from that page

Usage

googleCite(theurl, citations = FALSE, plotIt = FALSE, pdfname = NULL,
  dlpdfs = FALSE, dlfolder = NULL, ...)

Arguments

theurl	URL of the google Citation page to be analyzed
citations	(logical) Obsolete
plotIt	Plot the Author/Paper wordcloud
pdfname	(NULL) filename of plot (if plotIt = TRUE)
dlpdfs	(logical) Beta - download pdfs
dlfolder	(file path) folder to download pdf (default getwd())
...	parameters to be passed to makeAuthorCloud, makePaperCloud

Value

A data.frame of the citations per year, authors names, and indicators of authorship with attributes of auth_pat and splitter for word clouds to be plotted later.

muschellij2/googleCite documentation built on May 23, 2019, 9:36 a.m.