Previous API: Write files

Please use cff_write_bib() or cff_write_citation() instead.

Usage

write_bib(x, file = tempfile(), append = FALSE, verbose = TRUE, ascii = FALSE)

write_citation(
  x,
  file = "./inst/CITATION",
  append = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

x

A bibentry or a cff object.

file

Name of the file to be created. If NULL it would display the lines to be written.

append

Whether to append the entries to an existing file or not.

verbose

Display informative messages

ascii

Whether to write the entries using ASCII characters only or not.

Value

Write a file.

See also

• cff_write_bib() for writing *.bib files.

• cff_write_citation() for writing R CITATION files.

Other deprecated functions: cff_extract_to_bibtex(), cff_from_bibtex(), cff_parse_citation(), cff_parse_person()

Examples

bib <- bibentry("Misc",
  title = "My title",
  author = "Fran Pérez"
)

my_temp_bib <- tempfile(fileext = ".bib")

cff_write_bib(bib, file = my_temp_bib)
#> ℹ Writing 4 entries ...
#> ✔ Results written to /tmp/Rtmpt2cmAP/file9fc34c68b41.bib

cat(readLines(my_temp_bib), sep = "\n")
#> @Misc{,
#>   title = {My title},
#>   author = {Fran Pérez},
#> }

cff_write_bib(bib, file = my_temp_bib, ascii = TRUE, append = TRUE)
#> ℹ Creating a backup of /tmp/Rtmpt2cmAP/file9fc34c68b41.bib in /tmp/Rtmpt2cmAP/file9fc34c68b41.bib.bk1
#> ℹ Writing 4 entries ...
#> ✔ Results written to /tmp/Rtmpt2cmAP/file9fc34c68b41.bib

cat(readLines(my_temp_bib), sep = "\n")
#> @Misc{,
#>   title = {My title},
#>   author = {Fran Pérez},
#> }
#> @Misc{,
#>   title = {My title},
#>   author = {Fran P{\'e}rez},
#> }