knitcitations (version 0.4-7)

write.bibtex: write a bibtex file

Description

write a bibtex file

Usage

write.bibtex(entry, file = "knitcitations.bib",
    append = FALSE, verbose = TRUE, create_key = TRUE)

Arguments

entry

a 'bibentry' object, list of bibentry objects, or a character vector of package names

file

output bibtex file. Will automatically append '.bib' if not added. if 'NULL' will use stdout.

append

a logical indicating that bibtex entries be added the the file. If FALSE (default), the file is overwritten.

verbose

a logical to toggle verbosity. If 'file=NULL', verbosity is forced off.

create_key

logical indicating whether function should create a bibtex citation key if the object doesn't have one.

Value

• a list of citation information, invisibly

  The 'knitcitations' package automatically extends the use of this function to be able to write bibtex files from a string of DOIs, making it valuable for purposes beyond the citation of packages.

See Also

read.bib citep citet

Examples

write.bibtex(c("Yihui2013" = citation("knitr"),
                "Boettiger2013" = citation("knitcitations"),
                "TempleLang2012"=citation("RCurl")))
 bib <- read.bibtex("knitcitations.bib")