write.pkgbib {pkgmaker} | R Documentation |
Generates a Bibtex file from a list of packages or all the installed packages. It is useful for adding relevant citations in Sweave documents.
write.pkgbib(entry = NULL, file = "Rpackages.bib", prefix = "", append = FALSE, verbose = TRUE)
entry |
a |
file |
output Bibtex file. It can be specified as a
filename (as a single character string), NULL for
|
prefix |
character string to prepend to the generated packages' Bibtex key. |
append |
a logical that indicates that the Bibtex
entries should be added to the file. If |
verbose |
a logical to toggle verbosity. If
|
Multiple citations are handled by adding a numeric suffix
to the Bibtex key (other than the first/main citation) as
"<pkgname>%i"
(e.g. pkg, pkg2, pkg3).
This function has now been integrated by Romain François in the bibtex package.
the list of Bibtex objects – invisibly.
Renaud Gaujoux, based on the function
Rpackages.bib
from Achim Zeileis (see
References).
[R] Creating bibtex file of all installed packages? Achim Zeileis. R-help mailing list. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-December/222201.html
link{connection}
, link{bibentry}
write.pkgbib(c('bibtex', 'utils', 'tools'), file='references') bibs <- bibtex::read.bib('references.bib') write.pkgbib(bibs, 'references2.bib') md5 <- tools::md5sum(c('references.bib', 'references2.bib')) md5[1] == md5[2] # write to stdout() write.pkgbib(c('bibtex', 'utils', 'tools'), file=NULL) # clean up unlink(c('references.bib', 'references2.bib'))