read.bib: bibtex parser

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bibtex parser

Description

Parser for bibliography databases written in the bib format.

Usage

read.bib(
  file = findBibFile(package),
  package = "bibtex",
  encoding = "unknown",
  header,
  footer
)

Arguments

file	bib file to parse. By default, the file ‘REFERENCES.bib’ in the root directory of the package given by the package argument is used.
package	package from which we want to read the bibliography. Only used if file is unspecified. Core R packages (base, datasets, graphics, grDevices, methods, stats, stats4, tools and utils) are treated specially: this package contains bibtex entries for these packages.
encoding	encoding
header	DEPRECATED.
footer	DEPRECATED

Value

An object of class "bibentry", similar to those obtained by the bibentry function.

References

Nelson H. F. Beebe. bibparse 1.04. 1999. http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/

Examples

## this package has a REFERENCES.bib file
bib <- read.bib(package = "bibtex")

## bibtex collects bibtex entries for R base packages
base.bib <- read.bib(package = "base")

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