disciplines {maths.genealogy} | R Documentation |
Mathematical discipline IDs
Description
Map mathematical disciplines to IDs for use in searching for mathematicians.
Usage
disciplines(search = NULL)
Arguments
search |
a character(1) string which will search within disciplines. This can be a regular expression search term if desired. |
Value
Data frame, with columns:
id
the discipline ID, as required by
search_id()
when searching for a mathematician within a specific mathematical discipline;discipline
the name of the discipline classification, per the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Examples
# Lookup the ID of any discipline involving the partial word "stat"
disciplines("stat")
# Use a regular expression to only exactly match the whole word Statistics and nothing else
disciplines("^statistics$")
# Use the above to search only for statisticians with the first name Louis
search_id(given = "Louis", discipline = disciplines("^statistics$")$id)
[Package maths.genealogy version 0.1.2 Index]