https://github.com/ropensci/bib2df

Parse a BibTeX file to a tibble
https://github.com/ropensci/bib2df

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Parse a BibTeX file to a tibble

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ropensci/bib2df
• Owner: ropensci
• Created: 2016-07-30T21:47:24.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-12T07:41:39.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-13T17:29:40.721Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: bibtex, peer-reviewed, r, r-package, rstats
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://docs.ropensci.org/bib2df
• Size: 172 KB
• Stars: 99
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 22
• Open Issues: 19
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Changelog: NEWS.md
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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```{r, echo = FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(

  collapse = TRUE,

  comment = "#>",

  fig.path = "README-"

)

```

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## `bib2df` - Parse a BibTeX file to a tibble

Everyone writing reports and articles with LaTeX has probably used BibTeX before. BibTeX is the de facto standard for reference management and grounds its functionality on a list of references stored in local text file. Depending on the reference type, several fields are necessary to define a reference properly. An exemplary BibTeX entry looks as follows:

```

@Article{Binmore2008,

  Title = {Do Conventions Need to Be Common Knowledge?},

  Author = {Binmore, Ken},

  Journal = {Topoi},

  Year = {2008},

  Number = {1},

  Pages = {17--27},

  Volume = {27}

}

```

## Parse the BibTeX file to a tibble

The BibTeX format is not convenient for any kind of analysis or visualization. Many R applications require a `data.frame` (or `tibble`) and `bib2df` offers a straightforward framework to parse a BibTeX file to a `tibble`.

```{r, warning=FALSE}

library(bib2df)

path <- system.file("extdata", "LiteratureOnCommonKnowledgeInGameTheory.bib", package = "bib2df")

df <- bib2df(path)

df

```

The `df2bib()` function makes it possible to write this `tibble` back to disk, enabling programmatic manipulation of a .bib file.

## Installation

The latest version of `bib2df` can be installed from GitHub using `devtools::install_github()`:

```

devtools::install_github("ropensci/bib2df")

```

Version 1.1.1 is now available on **CRAN**:

```

install.packages("bib2df")

```

## Community Guidelines

Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

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