[R] build a literature database

[Michael Dewey]

Dear John

If you are doing a systematic review have you thought of investigating 
some of the packages in the CRAN Task View on MetaAnalysis like metagear 
or revtools? I have not used any of them but they claim to support that 
part of the process.

Michael

On 04/11/2020 09:22, John wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     I 'd like to create a table for literature review. Is there any good
> data structure (database) I may use? Now I just use a simple dataframe as
> follows, but in the second item I swap the order of year and author, and it
> records 2013 as author and "XH" as year.  Is there any better structure ?
> If not, how may I fix the current condition?Thanks!
> 
> 
> df <- data.frame(author = NA, year = NA, title = NA, country = NA, sample =
> NA, data = NA, result = NA, note = NA, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
> df[1, ]<-c(
>             author = "Moore",
>             year = 2020,
>             title = "Statistics and data analysis",
>             country = "Colombia",
>             sample = NA,
>             data = "firm level",
>             result = NA,
>             note = NA)
> 
> df[nrow(df)+1,]<- c(year = 2013,
>                      author = "XH",
>                      title = NA,
>                      country = NA,
>                      sample = NA,
>                      data = NA,
>                      result = NA,
>                      note = NA)
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Michael
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