Package {SSRN}


Type: Package
Title: Download author stats from SSRN
Version: 1.0-4
Date: 2025-06-21
Maintainer: Enrico Schumann <es@enricoschumann.net>
Description: Download author stats from SSRN.
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL]
Imports: curl
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-02-20 14:06:00 UTC; es19
Author: Enrico Schumann [aut, cre]
Built: R 4.6.0; ; 2026-02-20 14:06:09 UTC; unix

Download Download Statistics from SSRN

Description

Download download statistics from SSRN

Usage

SSRN_stats(id, write.file = FALSE, append.file = TRUE,
           file.prefix = "SSRN", file.timestamp = TRUE)

Arguments

id

integer: the author's Id

write.file

logical

append.file

integer: the author's Id

file.prefix

character

file.timestamp

logical

Details

The function reads the whole author page and then looks up the papers via regular expressions.

Value

A list

author.rank.downloads
author.rank.citations
total.downloads

i

downloads

a data.frame

Author(s)

Enrico Schumann

Examples

## Not run: 
## the package author's SSRN page
SSRN_stats(895233)

## End(Not run)