openalexr and Walden

[Friedman, Jason]

Hi All,

 

Has anyone successfully used openalexr to query Walden/version 2? If so, would you be willing to share what you did? I’m curious to give it a try, but I’ve been stymied.

 

Thanks!

 

-Jason

 

Jason Friedman, BA, MA, MIS
he/him

Assistant Dean, Collections and Discovery

 

University of Saskatchewan

University Library

Ph: (306) 966-8114

 

I acknowledge that I live and work on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. We pay our respect to the First Nations and Métis ancestors of this place and reaffirm our relationship with one another.

 

[Trang Le]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, Jason! I have created an issue on openalexR and will work on the fix soon. For now, if you want to work with the list output instead of waiting for the dataframe conversion to be fixed:

oa_fetch(
  entity = "works",
  title.search = "large language model",
  pages = 1,
  options = list("data-version" = 2),
  output = "list",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Best,

Trang 

[Trang Le]

Hi Jason — I have implemented a quick fix. We will push this release to CRAN soon (along with a few other minor fixes). Stay tuned! 

For now, you can install the GitHub version and this should work:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("ropensci/openalexR")
library(openalexR)
w <- oa_fetch(

  entity = "works",
  title.search = "large language model",
  pages = 1,
  options = list("data-version" = 2),

  verbose = TRUE
)
w

[Friedman, Jason]

Hi Trang,

 

Thank you so much!!! I greatly appreciate it!

 

-Jason

 

Jason Friedman, BA, MA, MIS
he/him

Assistant Dean, Collections and Discovery

 

University of Saskatchewan

University Library

Ph: (306) 966-8114

 

I acknowledge that I live and work on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. We pay our respect to the First Nations and Métis ancestors of this place and reaffirm our relationship with one another.

 

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