R: BibLaTeX/BibTeX .bib file parser

ReadBib {RefManageR} | R Documentation

## BibLaTeX/BibTeX .bib file parser

### Description

Parser for bibliography databases in the bib format containing either BibLaTeX or BibTeX entries.

### Usage

    ReadBib(file, .Encoding = "UTF-8", header = if (length(preamble))
      paste(preamble, sep = "\n") else "", footer = "",
      check = BibOptions()$check.entries)

### Arguments

`file` | string; bib file to parse.
`.Encoding` | encoding
`header` | header of the citation list. By default this is made from the Preamble entries found in the bib file.
`footer` | footer of the citation list.
`check` | “error”, “warn”, or logical `FALSE`. What action should be taken if an entry is missing required fields? `FALSE` means no checking is done, “warn” means entry is added with an error. “error” means the entry will not be added. See `BibOptions`.

### Note

Date fields are parsed using the locale specified by `Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME")`. To read a bib file with character ‘month’ fields in a language other than the current locale, `Sys.setlocale` should be used to change ‘LC_TIME’' to match the bib file before calling `ReadBib`.

Keys will be made unique by calling `make.unique` with `sep = ":"`.

### Author(s)

McLean, M. W., based on code in `bibtex` package by Francois, R.

### See Also

`read.bib` in package `bibtex`

### Examples

    file.name <- system.file("Bib", "RJC.bib", package="RefManageR")
    bib <- ReadBib(file.name)

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