On 12/19/2011 2:02 AM, Renaud Gaujoux wrote:
Hi,
I actually adapted and integrated this feature into Achim's -- nice --
function (posted on r-help).
Romain included it a couple of weeks ago into the bibtex package as
function write.bib, and submitted the update to CRAN, but some NOTEs
in the
Indeed I broke the function when adding support for bibentry objects...
By the way, let's give credits back to Ceasars: I am not the author of
the bibtex package, Romain Francois is. I just contributed the write.bib
function, mainly inspired by Achim's function.
Romain, I will send a fix for
Hi,
I actually adapted and integrated this feature into Achim's -- nice --
function (posted on r-help).
Romain included it a couple of weeks ago into the bibtex package as
function write.bib, and submitted the update to CRAN, but some NOTEs in
the check delayed its availability on CRAN.
You
Back in 2010 I raised this issue, and there was some discussion,
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-November/058987.html
The goal, then, as now is to have a way to produce a bibtex-clean .bib
file (i.e., not requiring
manual editing except in unusual circumstances) reflecting installed
Michael,
meanwhile the bibentry class that Kurt mentioned back in the discussion
in 2010 is fully implemented in R. Hence the code can be simplified when
working with the bibentry objects directly (instead of the Bibtex
objects derived from them).
I've quickly hacked some code to illustrate
== Summary ==
* Problem: BibTeX entries extracted from R packages via citation()
require too much manual editing to be
of general use.
* Proposal: Date: fields should be made mandatory in package DESCRIPTION
files, perhaps
beginning with warnings from R CMD check
* Proposal: Package authors
I strongly support this proposal! I also find it inconvenient to cite
some R packages and really do not like edit the BibTeX entries
manually.
Regards,
Yihui
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Michael Friendly writes:
Thanks for the suggestions. In fact, we are currently working on this
issue. A lot of improvements have already been done, see ?person and
?bibentry for R 2.12.0 or later, especially the details and examples
sections. Some more work still needs to be done, though. We
