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biorxivr (version 1.0.2)

Search and Download Papers from the bioRxiv Preprint Server

Description

The bioRxiv preprint server () is a website where scientists can post preprints of scholarly texts in biology. Users can search and download PDFs in bulk from the preprint server. The text of abstracts are stored as raw text within R, and PDFs can easily be saved and imported for text mining with packages such as 'tm'.

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install.packages('biorxivr')

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Version

1.0.2

License

MIT + file LICENSE

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Last Published

May 8th, 2020

Functions in biorxivr (1.0.2)

bx_extract

Extract data from search results
bx_download

Download PDFs of papers found by bx_search
bx_extract_single

Extract data from a single record
bx_search

Search biorxiv.org