[Available for medRxiv only] This function allows users to import a maintained static snapshot of the medRxiv repository, instead of downloading a copy from the API, which can become unavailable during peak usage times. The function dynamically retrieves multiple snapshot parts from the specified repository and combines them into a single dataframe.
Arguments
- commit
Commit hash or branch name for the snapshot, taken from https://github.com/yaoxiangli/medrxivr-data. Allows for reproducible searching by specifying the exact snapshot used to perform the searches. Defaults to "main", which will return the most recent snapshot from the main branch.
- from_date
Optional earliest date of interest ("YYYY-MM-DD" or Date). If supplied, records with `date` earlier than this are excluded.
- to_date
Optional latest date of interest ("YYYY-MM-DD" or Date). If supplied, records with `date` later than this are excluded.
Value
A formatted dataframe containing the combined data from the snapshot parts, with reconstructed `link_page` and `link_pdf` columns.
See also
Other data-source:
mx_api_content(),
mx_api_doi()