get_publication: A file to get publications for sites or datasets in the...
In neotoma: A Package to access the Neotoma Paleoecological Database using an API.

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples

The function takes the parameters, defined by the user, and returns a table with publication information from the Neotoma Paleoecological Database.

1 2	get_publication(pubid, contactid, datasetid, author, pubtype, year, search)

`pubid`	Numeric Publication ID value, either from `get.datasets` or known.
`contactid`	Numeric Contact ID value, either from `get.datasets` or `get.contacts`
`datasetid`	Numeric Dataset ID, known or from `get.datasets`
`author`	Character string for full or partial author's name. Can include wildcards such as 'Smit*' for all names beginning with 'Smit'.
`pubtype`	Character string, one of eleven allowable types, see `get.table('PublicationTypes')`
`year`	Numeric publication year.
`search`	A character string to search for within the article citation.

A table is returned with several fixed columns, and a variable number of author fields:

PublicationIDUnique database record identifier for the publication.
PubTypePublication type
YearYear of publication.
CitationThe complete citation in a standard style. For legacy citations inherited from other databases, this field holds the citation as ingested from the other databases.
AuthorsArray of author objects, can be of variable length. Includes Authors.ContactName.n, Authors.ContactID.n, Authors.Order.n, where n ranges from 1 to the maximum number of authors returned by the API call. When the maximum number of authors is 1 the number is excluded.

Simon J. Goring simon.j.goring@gmail.com

Neotoma Project Website: http://www.neotomadb.org API Reference: http://api.neotomadb.org/doc/resources/contacts

## Not run: 
#  To find all publications from 1998:
year.cont <- get_publication(year = 1998)

# To find all data contributors who have the last name "Smith"
smith.cont <- get_publication(author = 'Smith')

## End(Not run)