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R: Generate a Bibtex File from Package Citations

write.bib

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Generate a Bibtex File from Package Citations

Description

Generates a Bibtex file from a list of packages or all the installed packages. It is useful for adding relevant citations in Sweave documents.

Usage

write.bib(entry, file = "Rpackages.bib", append = FALSE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

`entry`	a `bibentry` object or a character vector of package names. If `NULL`, then the list of all installed packages is used.
`file`	output Bibtex file
`append`	TRUE if the content should be appended to the file
`verbose`	a logical to toggle verbosity

Value

the list of Bibtex objects – invisibly.

Author(s)

Renaud Gaujoux, based on the function Rpackages.bib from Achim Zeileis (see References).

References

Creating bibtex file of all installed packages? Achim Zeileis. R-help mailing list. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-December/222201.html

Examples

## Not run: 
write.bib(c('bibtex', 'utils', 'tools'), file='references')
bibs <- read.bib('references.bib')
write.bib(bibs, 'references2.bib')
md5 <- tools::md5sum(c('references.bib', 'references2.bib'))
md5[1] == md5[2]

## End(Not run)