as_bibentry: Create 'bibentry' objects from several sources

In cffr: Generate Citation File Format ('cff') Metadata for R Packages

Create bibentry objects from several sources

Description

This function creates bibentry objects from different metadata sources (cff objects, DESCRIPTION files, etc.). The inverse transformation (bibentry object to cff_ref_lst) can be done with the corresponding as_cff.bibentry() method.

With toBibtex() it is possible to convert cff objects to BibTeX markup on the fly, see Examples.

Usage

as_bibentry(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
as_bibentry(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'character'
as_bibentry(x, ..., what = c("preferred", "references", "all"))

## S3 method for class ''NULL''
as_bibentry(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'list'
as_bibentry(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'cff'
as_bibentry(x, ..., what = c("preferred", "references", "all"))

## S3 method for class 'cff_ref_lst'
as_bibentry(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'cff_ref'
as_bibentry(x, ...)

Arguments

x	The source that would be used for generating the bibentry object via cffr. It could be: A missing value. That would retrieve the DESCRIPTION file on your in-development package. An existing cff object created with cff(), cff_create() or as_cff(). Path to a CITATION.cff file ("CITATION.cff"), The name of an installed package ("jsonlite"), or Path to a DESCRIPTION file ("DESCRIPTION").
...	Additional arguments to be passed to or from methods.
what	Fields to extract from a full cff object. The value could be: preferred: This would create a single entry with the main citation info of the package (key preferred-citation). references: Extract all the entries of references key. all: A combination of the previous two options. This would extract both the preferred-citation and the references key. See vignette("crosswalk", package = "cffr").

Details

A R bibentry object is the representation of a BibTeX entry. These objects can be converted to BibTeX markup with toBibtex(), that creates an object of class Bibtex and can be printed and exported as a valid BibTeX entry.

as_bibtex() tries to map the information of the source x into a ⁠cff] object and performs a mapping of the metadata to BibTeX, according to ⁠vignette("bibtex_cff", "cffr")'.

Value

as_bibentry() returns a bibentry object with one or more entries.

References

• Patashnik, Oren. "BIBTEXTING" February 1988. https://osl.ugr.es/CTAN/biblio/bibtex/base/btxdoc.pdf.

• Haines, R., & The Ruby Citation File Format Developers. (2021). Ruby CFF Library (Version 0.9.0) (Computer software). \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.5281/zenodo.1184077")}.

• Hernangomez D (2022). "BibTeX and CFF, a potential crosswalk." The cffr package, Vignettes. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.21105/joss.03900")}, https://docs.ropensci.org/cffr/articles/bibtex_cff.html.

See Also

utils::bibentry() to understand more about the bibentry class.

• vignette("crosswalk", package = "cffr") provides details on how the metadata of a package is mapped to produce a cff object.

• vignette("bibtex_cff", "cffr") provides detailed information about the internal mapping performed between cff objects and BibTeX markup ( both cff to BibTeX and BibTeX to cff).

Other related functions:

• utils::toBibtex().

Other functions for working with BibTeX format: cff_read(), cff_read_bib_text(), cff_write_bib(), encoded_utf_to_latex()

Coercing between R classes with S3 Methods: as_cff(), as_cff_person(), cff_class

Examples

# From a cff object ----
cff_object <- cff()

cff_object

# bibentry object
bib <- as_bibentry(cff_object)

class(bib)

bib

# Print as bibtex
toBibtex(bib)

# Thanks to the S3 Method we can also do
toBibtex(cff_object)

# Other sources ----
# From a CITATION.cff

path <- system.file("examples/CITATION_complete.cff", package = "cffr")
cff_file <- as_bibentry(path)

cff_file

# For an installed package with options
installed_package <- as_bibentry("jsonvalidate", what = "all")

installed_package


# Use a DESCRIPTION file
path2 <- system.file("examples/DESCRIPTION_gitlab", package = "cffr")
desc_file <- as_bibentry(path2)

toBibtex(desc_file)

cffr documentation built on April 3, 2025, 9:33 p.m.