get_publications.publications {neotoma2}

Update metadata for a set of publication objects.

Description

Update metadata for a set of publication objects.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'publications'
get_publications(x, ...)

Arguments

x

integer A publication

...

publicationid The unique numeric identifier associated with a publication in Neotoma. datasetid A unique identifier for a Neotoma dataset that is associated with a publication. familyname The full or partial last name for an individual author. pubtype The publication type, from get_tables("publicationtypes"). year The year the publication was released. search A plain text search string used to search the citation.

Value

publications object

Examples

# Take a publication object and purposely degrade the metadata:
bad_pub <- get_publications(c(666, 667, 668))
# Note this only changes the reported year, not the citation string.
bad_pub[[1]]@year <- "1923"
bad_pub[[1]]@publicationid <- as.character(NA)
updated_pubs <- get_publications(bad_pub)
# Only the first publication object has any matches. It's the only one
# that is missing its publicaitonid.
attr(updated_pubs[[1]], "matches")
attr(updated_pubs[[2]], "matches")
# we see the proper citation in the record:
updated_pubs[[1]] <- attr(updated_pubs[[1]], "matches")[[1]]