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Convert OpenAlex collection of sources' records from list format to data frame

Source: R/oa2df.R
sources2df.Rd

It converts bibliographic collection of sources' records gathered from OpenAlex database https://openalex.org/ into data frame. The function converts a list of sources' records obtained using oa_request into a data frame/tibble.

Usage

sources2df(
  data,
  verbose = TRUE,
  pb = if (verbose) oa_progress(length(data)) else NULL
)

Arguments

data

List. Output of oa_request.

verbose

Logical. If TRUE, print information about the dataframe conversion process. Defaults to TRUE.

pb

Progress bar object. If verbose, computed from `oa_progress`. NULL otherwise.

Value

a data.frame.

For more extensive information about OpenAlex API, please visit: <https://docs.openalex.org>

Examples

if (FALSE) {

# Get sources from Nature

res <- oa_request(
  "https://api.openalex.org/sources?search=nature"
)

df <- oa2df(res, entity = "sources")

df
}