oa_fetch but for a random query
Usage
oa_random(
entity = oa_entities(),
output = c("tibble", "dataframe", "list"),
endpoint = "https://api.openalex.org"
)Arguments
- entity
Character. Scholarly entity of the search. The argument can be one of c("works", "authors", "institutions", "keywords", "funders", "sources", "publishers", "topics"). If not provided, `entity` is guessed from `identifier`.
- output
Character. Type of output, one of `"tibble"`, `"dataframe"`, `"list"`, or `"raw"`.
- tibble
a tibble tidy data
- dataframe
a base data.frame tidy data
- list
a list of parsed JSON contents
- raw
a list of raw JSON strings (length depends on query)
- endpoint
Character. URL of the OpenAlex Endpoint API server. Defaults to endpoint = "https://api.openalex.org".
Value
A data.frame or a list. One row or one element. Result of the random query. If you would like to select more than one random entity, say, 10, use `options = list(sample = 10)` argument in `oa_fetch`.
Examples
oa_random()
#> # A tibble: 1 × 39
#> id title display_name authorships doi publication_date publication_year
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <list> <chr> <date> <int>
#> 1 https:… Spat… Spatial pat… <tibble> http… 2013-03-22 2013
#> # ℹ 32 more variables: fwci <dbl>, cited_by_count <int>, counts_by_year <list>,
#> # cited_by_api_url <chr>, ids <list>, type <chr>, is_oa <lgl>,
#> # is_oa_anywhere <lgl>, oa_status <chr>, oa_url <lgl>,
#> # any_repository_has_fulltext <lgl>, source_display_name <chr>,
#> # source_id <chr>, issn_l <chr>, host_organization <chr>,
#> # host_organization_name <chr>, landing_page_url <chr>,
#> # referenced_works <list>, referenced_works_count <int>, …