Generate a Bibtex File from Package Citations

Generates a Bibtex file from a list of packages or all the installed packages. It is useful for adding relevant citations in Sweave documents.

Usage

write.bib(entry, file = "Rpackages.bib", append = FALSE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

entry: a bibentry object or a character vector of package names. If NULL, then the list of all installed packages is used.
file: output Bibtex file.
append: logical. If TRUE content is appended to the file.
verbose: a logical to toggle verbosity.

Value

the list of Bibtex objects -- invisibly.

References

[R] Creating bibtex file of all installed packages? Achim Zeileis. R-help mailing list.

Author

Renaud Gaujoux, based on the function Rpackages.bib from Achim Zeileis (see References).

Examples


write.bib(c("bibtex", "utils", "tools"), file = "references")
#> Converted 3 of 3 package citations to BibTeX
#> Writing 3 Bibtex entries ... 
#> OK
#> Results written to file 'references.bib'
bibs <- read.bib("references.bib")
write.bib(bibs, "references2.bib")
#> Writing 3 Bibtex entries ... 
#> OK
#> Results written to file 'references2.bib'
md5 <- tools::md5sum(c("references.bib", "references2.bib"))
md5[1] == md5[2]
#> references.bib 
#>           TRUE 

# \dontshow{
unlink(c("references.bib", "references2.bib"))
# }