Bibtex Utilities — bibtex • pkgmaker

Utility functions to work with BiBTeX files.

packageReferenceFile(PACKAGE = NULL, check = FALSE)

package_bibliography(PACKAGE = NULL, action = c("path", "copy", "load"))

Arguments

PACKAGE

PACKAGE	package name. If `NULL`, then the name of the calling package is used.
check	logical that indicates if the result should be an empty string if the bibliography file (or package) does not exist.
action	single character string that specifies the action to be performed: 'path': return the path to the bibliography file. It returns an empty character string if the file does not exist. 'copy': copy the bibliography file to the current directory, overwriting any existing `REFERENCES.bib` file. 'load': load the bibliography file and return a list of utils::bibentry objects. It returns `NULL` if the file does not exist.

package name. If NULL, then the name of the calling package is used.

check

logical that indicates if the result should be an empty string if the bibliography file (or package) does not exist.

action

single character string that specifies the action to be performed:

'path': return the path to the bibliography file. It returns an empty character string if the file does not exist.
'copy': copy the bibliography file to the current directory, overwriting any existing REFERENCES.bib file.
'load': load the bibliography file and return a list of utils::bibentry objects. It returns NULL if the file does not exist.

Functions

packageReferenceFile: returns the path to a package REFERENCES.bib file.
package_bibliography: returns the bibliography associated with a package. This can

Examples


packageReferenceFile('pkgmaker')
#> [1] "/tmp/RtmpJs7h8M/temp_libpath75ed85ee0ea45/pkgmaker/REFERENCES.bib"
packageReferenceFile('pkgmaker', check = TRUE)
#> [1] ""