You can get this package at CRAN here, or install it within R by doing

install.packages("rplos")

Or install the development version with devtools::install_github():

install.packages("devtools")
require(devtools)
install_github("rplos", "rOpenSci")
require(rplos)

rplos is a package for accessing full text articles from the Public Library of Science journals using their API.

Get your PLoS API key here

Put your API key in your .Rprofile file using exactly this: options(PlosApiKey = "YOURPLOSAPIKEY"), and the functions within this package will be able to use your API key without you having to enter it every time you run a search.

rplos tutorial at rOpenSci website here

PLoS API documentation here

Crossref API documentation here, here, and here. Note that we are working on a new package rcrossref with a much fuller implementation of R functions for all Crossref endpoints.

searchplos('ecology', 'id,publication_date', limit = 5)

                            id     publication_date
1 10.1371/journal.pone.0059813 2013-04-24T00:00:00Z
2 10.1371/journal.pone.0001248 2007-11-28T00:00:00Z
3 10.1371/journal.pone.0017342 2011-03-09T00:00:00Z
4 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020072 2004-03-16T00:00:00Z
5 10.1371/journal.pone.0054689 2013-01-23T00:00:00Z

plosword(list('monkey','Helianthus','sunflower','protein','whale'), vis = 'TRUE')

Please report any issues or bugs.

License: CC0

This package is part of the rOpenSci project.

To cite package rplos in publications use:

To cite package ‘rplos’ in publications use:

  Scott Chamberlain, Carl Boettiger and Karthik Ram (2014). rplos: Interface to PLoS
  Journals search API. R package version 0.4.0. https://github.com/ropensci/rplos

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {rplos: Interface to PLoS Journals search API.},
    author = {Scott Chamberlain and Carl Boettiger and Karthik Ram},
    year = {2014},
    note = {R package version 0.4.0},
    url = {https://github.com/ropensci/rplos},
  }

Get citation information for rplos in R doing citation(package = 'rplos')