WriteBib: Create a BibTeX File from a BibEntry Object e Creates a Bibtex File from a BibEntry object for use with either BibTeX or BibLaTex.

Description

Create a BibTeX File from a BibEntry Object e Creates a Bibtex File from a BibEntry object for use with either BibTeX or BibLaTex.

Usage

WriteBib(
  bib,
  file = "references.bib",
  biblatex = TRUE,
  append = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Value

bib - invisibly

Arguments

bib: a BibEntry object to be written to file
file: character string naming a file, should; end in “.bib”. Can be NULL, in which case the BibEntry object will be written to stdout.
biblatex: boolean; if TRUE, toBiblatex is used and no conversions of the BibEntry object are done; if FALSE entries will be converted as described in toBibtex.BibEntry.
append: as in write.bib in package bibtex
verbose: as in write.bib in package bibtex
...: additional arguments passed to writeLines

Author

McLean, M. W. based on write.bib by Gaujoux, R. in package bibtex.

Examples

Run this code

if (requireNamespace("bibtex")){
    bib <- BibEntry("Article", key = "Carroll_2012",
                    doi = "10.1080/01621459.2012.699793",
                    year = "2012", month = "sep",
                    volume = 107, number = 499,
                    pages = {1166--1177},
      author = "R. Carroll and A. Delaigle and P. Hall",
      title = "Deconvolution When Classifying Noisy Data ...",
      journal = "Journal of the American Statistical Association")

  ## Write bib if no server error and bibtex available
  if (length(bib)){
    tfile <- tempfile(fileext = ".bib")
    WriteBib(bib, tfile, biblatex = TRUE)
    identical(ReadBib(tfile), bib)
    unlink(tfile)
  }
}