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R Advanced: Automate Your Literature Search
Struggling to develop a comprehensive set of terms for your literature search? This workshop will introduce the R package litsearchr, which automates the process of expanding a literature search by developing seed articles into a thorough search string.
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October 12, 2023, 10:30am -
1:00pm
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Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff
Struggling to develop a comprehensive set of terms for your literature search? This workshop will introduce the R package litsearchr, which automates the process of expanding a literature search by developing seed articles into a thorough search string.
- Decide whether automation would help
- Develop potential keywords
- Generate a Boolean search string
Prerequisites:
- Install R and RStudio at no cost, or use the Penn Libraries’ on-site computers
- Install packages in R: install.packages("remotes"); library(remotes); install_github("elizagrames/litsearchr", ref="main")
- Be comfortable using basic R capabilities