Queries the arXiv API to get the count of papers submitted to a given category during a stated date range.

get_record_count(cat, date_range)

Arguments

cat

arXiv category name

date_range

Submission dates in "YYYYMMDD TO YYYYMMDD" format

Value

int of papers meeting the criteria

Examples

# Get the count of papers submitted to cs.LG on August 1, 2020 ml_count <- get_record_count("cs.LG", "20200801 TO 20200802")