Open BibEntry in PDF viewer or web browser.

Attempts to open a connection to an entry in a BibEntry object using fields such as ‘file’, ‘DOI’, ‘eprint’ + ‘eprinttype’, and ‘URL’.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'BibEntry'
open(
  con,
  entry = 1L,
  open.field = c("file", "url", "eprint", "doi"),
  viewer,
  ...
)

Arguments

con

BibEntry object to extract connections from.

entry

numeric index or character key of entry in bib to open.

open.field

character vector of fields to use in bib to open the BibEntry. Possible fields are any combination of “file”, “url”, “eprint”, or “doi”. “eprint” is implemented for eprinttype= “JSTOR”, “PubMed”, or “arXiv”. When multiple fields are specified, they are tried in the order they appear in the vector.

viewer

character string giving the name of the program to be used as hypertext browser. It should be in the PATH, or a full path specified. Alternatively, an R function to be called to invoke the browser. Defaults to getOptions("pdfviewer") if open.field = "file" and getOptions("browser"), otherwise.

...

not used.

See also

browseURL

Author

McLean, M. W. mathew.w.mclean@gmail.com

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
if (requireNamespace("bibtex")) {
    testbib <- ReadBib(system.file("REFERENCES.bib", package="bibtex"))
    open(testbib)
    testbib$file <- file.path(R.home("doc/manual"), "R-intro.pdf")
    open(testbib)
}
} # }