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R: bibtex parser

read.bib

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bibtex parser

Description

Parser for bibliography databases written in the bib format.

Usage

read.bib(file = findBibFile(package), 
         package = "bibtex", 
         encoding = "unknown", 
         header = if(length(preamble)) paste(preamble, sep = "\n") else "", 
	 footer = "" )

Arguments

`file`	bib file to parse. By default, the file ‘REFERENCES.bib’ in the root directory of the package given by the `package` argument is used.
`package`	package from which we want to read the bibliography. Only used if `file` is unspecified. Core R packages (base, datasets, graphics, grDevices, methods, stats, stats4, tools and utils) are treated specially: this package contains bibtex entries for these packages.
`encoding`	encoding
`header`	header of the citation list. By default this is made from the Preamble entries found in the bib file.
`footer`	footer of the citation list

Value

An object of class "bibentry", similar to those obtained by the bibentry function.

Note

The parser is greatly inspired from the bibparse library.

Author(s)

Romain Francois <romain@r-enthusiasts.com>

References

Nelson H. F. Beebe. bibparse 1.04. 1999. http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe

Examples

## this package has a REFERENCES.bib file
bib <- read.bib( package = "bibtex" )

## bibtex collects bibtex entries for R base packages
base.bib <- read.bib( package = "base" )