The R package litsearchr provides various functions to help with planning a systematic search of the scientific literature on a given topic. This short tutorial gives an example of how to use litsearchr, along with some brief explanations of its workings. litsearchr was created by the amazing Eliza Grames, and a lot of this tutorial is an elaboration of the existing vignette for the package.
Head here for the main tutorial page.
- litsearchr_tutorial.Rmd: R markdown source for the tutorial page.
- Some example nbib files of search results retrieved from PubMed:
- clin_psy_stopwords.txt: Example file of stopwords related to the search topic used in the tutorial.
- search-inEnglish.txt: Example search query produced by the
write_search()function.
You will need the following R packages to run the code from the tutorial yourself:
dplyrggplot2ggraphigraphreadr
Instructions for installing litsearchr are provided in the tutorial.