Flatten and unflatten BibEntry objects

RelistBibEntry unflattens a BibEntry object that has been flattened with unlist.

unlist flattens a BibEntry object to a single list where every field (including bibtype and key) of every entry is a separate element in the list.

Usage

RelistBibEntry(flesh, skeleton = NULL)

# S3 method for class 'BibEntry'
unlist(x, recursive = FALSE, use.names = TRUE)

Arguments

flesh

list; an unlisted BibEntry object

skeleton

currently ignored

x

a BibEntry object to flatten

recursive

ignored.

use.names

ignored.

Value

RelistBibEntry - an object of class BibEntry

For unlist, a list with bib entries collapsed into a single list.

Details

RelistBibEntry is only intended for use with unlisted BibEntry objects.

Note

The names of the list elements from an unlisted BibEntry object will not be unique. To do this see make.unique.

See also

as.BibEntry

Examples

bib <- list(c(bibtype = "article", key = "mclean2014a", title = "My New Article",
  author = "Mathew W. McLean", journaltitle = "The Journal", date = "2014-01"),
  c(bibtype = "article", key = "mclean2014b", title = "My Newer Article",
  author = "Mathew W. McLean", journaltitle = "The Journal", date = "2014-02"))
bib <- as.BibEntry(bib)
unlist(bib)
#> $title
#> [1] "My New Article"
#> 
#> $author
#> [1] "Mathew W. McLean"
#> 
#> $journaltitle
#> [1] "The Journal"
#> 
#> $date
#> [1] "2014-01"
#> 
#> $bibtype
#> [1] "Article"
#> 
#> $dateobj
#> [1] "2014-01-01 UTC"
#> 
#> $key
#> [1] "mclean2014a"
#> 
#> $title
#> [1] "My Newer Article"
#> 
#> $author
#> [1] "Mathew W. McLean"
#> 
#> $journaltitle
#> [1] "The Journal"
#> 
#> $date
#> [1] "2014-02"
#> 
#> $bibtype
#> [1] "Article"
#> 
#> $dateobj
#> [1] "2014-02-01 UTC"
#> 
#> $key
#> [1] "mclean2014b"
#> 
RelistBibEntry(unlist(bib))
#> [1] M. W. McLean. “My New Article”. In: _The Journal_ (Jan. 2014).
#> 
#> [2] M. W. McLean. “My Newer Article”. In: _The Journal_ (Feb. 2014).