gcite_author_info {gcite}

Getting User Information from name

Description

Calls gcite_user_info after getting the user identifier

Usage

gcite_author_info(author, ask = TRUE, pagesize = 100, verbose = TRUE,
  secure = TRUE, force = FALSE, read_citations = TRUE,
  sleeptime = 0, ...)

Arguments

author

author name separated by spaces

ask

If multiple authors are found, should a menu be given

pagesize

Size of pages, max 100, passed to gcite_url

verbose

Print diagnostic messages

secure

use https vs. http

force

If passing a URL and there is a failure, should the program return NULL, passed to gcite_citation_page

read_citations

Should all citation pages be read?

sleeptime

time in seconds between http requests, to avoid Google Scholar rate limit

...

Additional arguments passed to GET

Value

A list of citations, citation indices, and a data.frame of authors, journal, and citations, and a data.frame of the links to all paper URLs.

Examples

## Not run: 
if (!is_travis()) {
df = gcite_author_info(author = "John Muschelli", secure = FALSE)
}

## End(Not run)
if (!is_travis() & !is_cran()) {
df = gcite_author_info(author = "Jiawei Bai", secure = FALSE)
}