Export a BibTeX tibble to a .bib file

The BibTeX tibble is written to a .bib file

Usage

df2bib(x, file = "", append = FALSE, allfields = TRUE)

Arguments

x

tibble, in the format as returned by bib2df.

file

character, file path to write the .bib file. An empty character string writes to stdout (default).

append

logical, if TRUE the tibble will be appended to an existing file.

allfields

logical, if TRUE (default), the resulting bib output will include all the BibTeX fields contained in the df object. If FALSE only the fields with text will be included in the resulting bib object

Value

file as a character string, invisibly.

References

https://www.bibtex.org/Format/

See also

bib2df

Author

Thomas J. Leeper

Gianluca Baio

Examples

# Read from .bib file:
path <- system.file("extdata", "bib2df_testfile_3.bib", package = "bib2df")
bib <- bib2df(path)

# Write to .bib file:
# bibFile <- tempfile()
# df2bib(bib, bibFile)

# Use `append = TRUE` to add lines to an existing .bib file:
# df2bib(bib, bibFile, append = TRUE)