Get Wikidata Item ID
Search www.wikidata.org for wikidata item identifiers. Note that this search is currently not limited to chemical substances, so be sure to check your results.
get_wdid(
query,
match = c("best", "first", "all", "ask", "na"),
verbose = TRUE,
language = "en"
)query |
character; The searchterm |
match |
character; How should multiple hits be handeled? 'all' returns all matched IDs, 'first' only the first match, 'best' the best matching (by name) ID, 'ask' is a interactive mode and the user is asked for input, na' returns NA if multiple hits are found. |
verbose |
logical; print message during processing to console? |
language |
character; the language to search in |
if match = 'all' a list with ids, otherwise a dataframe with 4 columns: id, matched text, string distance to match and the queried string
Only matches in labels are returned.
## Not run:
get_wdid('Triclosan', language = 'de')
get_wdid('DDT')
get_wdid('DDT', match = 'all')
# multiple inputs
comps <- c('Triclosan', 'Glyphosate')
get_wdid(comps)
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