Batch functionality for ScopusAPI code

[kelloggresearchgroup]

Good afternoon. I was wondering how simple it would be to use a list of strings to search, one by one, using this script? Could I enter a .csv file with my search terms, one per line, and then have it run the script for each line and report out the data one at a time? Do you have any other suggestions how to automate it like that? Thanks!

[christopherBelter]

You could probably lapply() the searchByString() function over the search strings in your .csv file to do something like that. So do something like

my_results <- lapply(1:nrow(my_csv), function(x) searchByString(my_csv$terms[x], outfile = paste0("my_results_", x, ".xml"))).

The result will be a list of XML files, one for each search string. So then do

my_data <- lapply(my_results, extractXML)
my_data <- do.call(rbind, my_data)

to extract the files into data frames and then (if you want) merge all the results back together. I'm freetyping the code here, so there might be typos, but something like that should work.

[kelloggresearchgroup]

Thanks, I'll give that a try. Appreciate the insight!