merge.BibEntry: Merge two BibEntry objects while discarding duplicates

In mwmclean/RefManageR: Straightforward 'BibTeX' and 'BibLaTeX' Bibliography Management

Merge two BibEntry objects while discarding duplicates

Description

Merges two BibEntry objects comparing only the specified fields to detect duplicates, thus it is can be made less strict than using duplicated, unique, etc. Attributes are also merged and keys are ensured to be unique. merge and + simply provide different interfaces for merging.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'BibEntry'
e1 + e2

## S3 method for class 'BibEntry'
merge(
  x,
  y,
  fields.to.check = BibOptions()$merge.fields.to.check,
  ignore.case = BibOptions()$ignore.case,
  ...
)

Arguments

e1	BibEntry object
e2	BibEntry object to be merged with e1
x	BibEntry object
y	BibEntry object
fields.to.check	character vector; which BibLaTeX fields should be checked to determine if an entry is a duplicate? Can include "bibtype" to check entry type and "key" to check entry keys. Specifying "all" checks all fields using duplicated.
ignore.case	logical; if TRUE, case is ignored when determining if fields are duplicates.
...	ignored

Value

an object of class BibEntry

Author(s)

McLean, M. W. [e-mail]

See Also

duplicated, unique

Other operators: $.BibEntry(), $<-.BibEntry(), [.BibEntry(), [<-.BibEntry(), [[.BibEntry(), [[<-.BibEntry(), c.BibEntry()

Examples

if (requireNamespace("bibtex")) {
    file.name <- system.file("Bib", "biblatexExamples.bib", package="RefManageR")
    bib <- suppressMessages(ReadBib(file.name))
    bib1 <- bib[seq_len(44)]
    bib2 <- bib[45:length(bib)]

    ## The following is FALSE because the parent entry of one entry in bib1
    ##   is in bib2, so the child entry is expanded in the BibEntry object
    ##   returned by `[` to include the fields inherited from the dropped parent
    identical(merge(bib1, bib2, 'all'), bib)
    toBiblatex(bib1[[1L]])
    toBiblatex(bib[[1L]])

    ## Alternatively, the operator `[[` for BibEntry objects does not expand
    ##   cross references
    bib1 <- bib[[seq_len(44)]]
    bib2 <- bib[[45:length(bib)]]
    identical(merge(bib1, bib2, 'all'), bib)

    ## Not strict enough
    invisible(merge(bib1, bib2, c('title', 'date')))
 }

## New publications of R.J. Carroll from Google Scholar and Crossref
## Not run: 
if (requireNamespace("bibtex")) {
    bib1 <- ReadGS(scholar.id = "CJOHNoQAAAAJ", limit = '10', sort.by.date = TRUE)
    bib2 <- ReadCrossRef(query = "rj carroll", limit = 10, sort = "relevance",
      min.relevance = 80)
    oldopt <- BibOptions(merge.fields.to.check = "title")
    rjc.new.pubs <- bib1 + bib2
    BibOptions(oldopt)
}

## End(Not run)

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