screen_duplicates {revtools}

Shiny app for locating and excluding duplicated entries in a dataset

Description

This is a simple app for calculating, displaying and screening potential duplicates in bibliographic data

Usage

screen_duplicates(x, max_file_size)

Arguments

x

An (optional) object of class data.frame or bibliography to open in the browser. If empty, the app will launch with no data. Data can be added within the app via the 'import' button.

max_file_size

Optional argument to set the maximum file size (in MB) that the app will accept.

Details

This app is effectively a wrapper for find_duplicates, with the added option to manually screen pairs of duplicates to check the results. Consequently, this is a more reliable method than extract_unique_references of dealing with the duplicates identified by find_duplicates, and for testing whether that function has returned sensible results for a given dataset.

Value

This function launches a Shiny app in the users' default browser, allowing the user to customize their parameters for duplicate detection, and visualise the results.

See Also

screen_titles or screen_abstracts for manual screening of individual articles.

Examples

# to run the app and upload data interactively
## Not run: screen_duplicates()
# or to specify data from the workspace
file_location <- system.file(
  "extdata",
  "avian_ecology_bibliography.ris",
  package = "revtools")
x <- read_bibliography(file_location)
# to run the app using these data:
## Not run: screen_duplicates(x)
# or to run the app & save results to the workspace:
## Not run: result <- screen_duplicates(x)