CITAN (version 2015.12-2)

lbsGetInfoAuthors: Retrieve author information

Description

Retrieves basic information on given authors.

Usage

lbsGetInfoAuthors(conn, idAuthors)

Arguments

conn

a connection object as produced by lbsConnect.

idAuthors

a numeric or integer vector with author identifiers (see column IdAuthor in the table Biblio_Authors).

Value

A list of authorinfo objects, that is lists with the following components:

• IdAuthor --- numeric; author's identifier in the table Biblio_Authors,

• Name --- character; author's name.

• AuthorGroup --- character; author group (used to merge author records).

See Also

lbsSearchAuthors, lbsSearchDocuments, lbsGetInfoDocuments, as.character.authorinfo, print.authorinfo,

Examples

# NOT RUN {
conn <- dbBiblioConnect("Bibliometrics.db");
## ...
id <- lbsSearchAuthors(conn, c("Smith\%", "Knuth D.E.", "V_n \%"));
lbsGetInfoAuthors(conn, id);
## ...
# }