read.bib {bibtex}R Documentation

bibtex parser

Description

parser for bibliography databases written in the bib format

Usage

read.bib(file = system.file("REFERENCES.bib", package = package), 
        package = "bibtex", 
        encoding = "unknown", 
        header = if( length(preamble) ) paste( preamble, sep = "\n" ) else "", 
        footer = "" )

Arguments

file bib file to parse. By default, the file REFERENCES.bib in the root directory of the package given by the package argument is used
package package from which we want to read the bibliography
encoding encoding
header header of the citation list. By default this is made from the Preamble entries found in the bib file.
footer footer of the citation list

Value

A citationList object, similar to those made by the citation function.

Note

The parser is greatly inspired from the bibparse library.

Author(s)

Romain Francois <francoisromain@free.fr>

References

Nelson H. F. Beebe. bibparse 1.04. 1999. http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe

See Also

citation

Examples

## Not run: 
bib <- read.bib( package = "bibtex" )
## End(Not run)

[Package bibtex version 0.1-3 Index]