This is a beautiful package: thanks for making it. One issue I have with my network is names not merging: I'm Brian O'Meara, and my name appears in my network (user id vpjEkQwAAAAJ) as separate nodes for BC O'Meara (twice), BC O'MEARA, B O'Meara (twice), and BC O'meara. I see a few other nodes where they're not merged. Perhaps merge based on first initial, last name, ignoring case?

Otherwise it returns the following error:

d <- extractNetwork(id="jGLKJUoAAAAJ", n=500)
Error in scholar::get_publications(id = id, pagesize = n, ...) : 
  unused argument (pagesize = n)

This relates to issue 1: while most of the multiple copies of names are now merged, names differing by how the apostrophe is expressed (O’meara [curly quote] vs O'meara [single quote]) in Scholar appear as different names.

Note I'm about to submit a pull request that fixes this.

With the following output:

`> install_github("pablobarbera/scholarnetwork")
Downloading GitHub repo pablobarbera/scholarnetwork@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/pablobarbera/scholarnetwork/zipball/master
Installing scholarnetwork
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3/networkD3_0.4.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 169856 bytes (165 KB)

downloaded 165 KB

Installing networkD3
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3/htmlwidgets_0.9.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 841236 bytes (821 KB)

downloaded 821 KB

Installing htmlwidgets
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3/htmltools_0.3.6.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 202202 bytes (197 KB)

downloaded 197 KB

Installing htmltools
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3/digest_0.6.12.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 148265 bytes (144 KB)

downloaded 144 KB

Installing digest
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL
'/private/var/folders/1m/lgxgm6qj1vg7__slztq68y2m0000gn/T/RtmpJlWkOI/devtools4200207b419c/digest' --library='/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library'
--install-tests

• installing binary package ‘digest’ ...
• DONE (digest)

downloaded 0 bytes

Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
cannot download all files
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3/Rcpp_0.12.11.tgz': status was '404 Not Found'
Warning in download.packages(x$name, destdir = dest_dir, repos = x$repos, :
download of package ‘Rcpp’ failed
Error in download.packages(x$name, destdir = dest_dir, repos = x$repos, :
subscript out of bounds`

I have downloaded my publication records of google scholar with extractNetwork() of scholarnetwork package in R, but I have duplicate authors in the list due to different spelling. For example; J. Gimenez and J. Giménez are the same authors. How can I treat this issue for a proper visualization of my research network.

Thank you.

Joan