In ottlngr/bib2df: Parse a BibTeX File to a Data Frame

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bib2df - Parse a BibTeX file to a tibble

Everyone writing reports and articles with LaTeX has probably used BibTeX before. BibTeX is the de facto standard for reference management and grounds its functionality on a list of references stored in local text file. Depending on the reference type, several fields are necessary to define a reference properly. An exemplary BibTeX entry looks as follows:

@Article{Binmore2008,
  Title = {Do Conventions Need to Be Common Knowledge?},
  Author = {Binmore, Ken},
  Journal = {Topoi},
  Year = {2008},
  Number = {1},
  Pages = {17--27},
  Volume = {27}
}

Parse the BibTeX file to a tibble

The BibTeX format is not convenient for any kind of analysis or visualization. Many R applications require a data.frame (or tibble) and bib2df offers a straightforward framework to parse a BibTeX file to a tibble.

library(bib2df)

path <- system.file("extdata", "LiteratureOnCommonKnowledgeInGameTheory.bib", package = "bib2df")

df <- bib2df(path)
df

The df2bib() function makes it possible to write this tibble back to disk, enabling programmatic manipulation of a .bib file.

Installation

The latest version of bib2df can be installed from GitHub using devtools::install_github():

devtools::install_github("ropensci/bib2df")

Version 1.1.1 is now available on CRAN:

install.packages("bib2df")

Community Guidelines

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

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ottlngr/bib2df documentation built on April 9, 2024, 8:15 a.m.