erdos_number: erdos number

In ropensci/RMendeley: Interface to Mendeley API methods

erdos number

Description

A function to crawl the co-author tree looking for matches

Usage

erdos_number(myname, target = "Erdos", cutoff = 2)

Arguments

myname	name as character with two elements, forename and surname
target	the name to match
cutoff	stop trying after going this number of levels deep

Details

This is really just an example function showing how the RMendeley functions can leverage the power of scripted codes and the R language to perform arbitrary & complicated data manipulation.

Value

the erdos number and the network of coauthors The network is a list, where each element is successively farther removed

Examples

## Not run: 
a <- erdos_number(myname=c(forename='Carl', surname='Boettiger'),
 target=c(forename='Simon', surname='Levin'), cutoff=3)

## End(Not run)

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