WriteBib: Create a BibTeX File from a BibEntry Object e Creates a...

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

Create a BibTeX File from a BibEntry Object e Creates a Bibtex File from a BibEntry object for use with either BibTeX or BibLaTex.

Description

Create a BibTeX File from a BibEntry Object e Creates a Bibtex File from a BibEntry object for use with either BibTeX or BibLaTex.

Usage

WriteBib(
  bib,
  file = "references.bib",
  biblatex = TRUE,
  append = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

bib	a BibEntry object to be written to file
file	character string naming a file, should; end in “.bib”. Can be NULL, in which case the BibEntry object will be written to stdout.
biblatex	boolean; if TRUE, toBiblatex is used and no conversions of the BibEntry object are done; if FALSE entries will be converted as described in toBibtex.BibEntry.
append	as in write.bib in package bibtex
verbose	as in write.bib in package bibtex
...	additional arguments passed to writeLines

Value

bib - invisibly

Note

To write the contents of bib “as is”, the argument biblatex should be TRUE, otherwise conversion is done as in toBibtex.BibEntry.

Author(s)

McLean, M. W. based on write.bib by Gaujoux, R. in package bibtex.

See Also

write.bib in package bibtex, ReadBib, toBibtex.BibEntry, toBiblatex, BibEntry

Examples

if (requireNamespace("bibtex")){
    bib <- BibEntry("Article", key = "Carroll_2012",
                    doi = "10.1080/01621459.2012.699793",
                    year = "2012", month = "sep",
                    volume = 107, number = 499,
                    pages = {1166--1177},
      author = "R. Carroll and A. Delaigle and P. Hall",
      title = "Deconvolution When Classifying Noisy Data ...",
      journal = "Journal of the American Statistical Association")

  ## Write bib if no server error and bibtex available
  if (length(bib)){
    tfile <- tempfile(fileext = ".bib")
    WriteBib(bib, tfile, biblatex = TRUE)
    identical(ReadBib(tfile), bib)
    unlink(tfile)
  }
}

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