R: Coerce to a Data Frame

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## Coerce to a Data Frame

### Description

Coerces a BibEntry object to a data.frame, with each row of the data frame being a field present in at least one entry in the BibEntry object being coerced.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'BibEntry'
    as.data.frame(x, row.names = NULL, optional = FALSE, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | - a BibEntry object
`row.names` | - ignored
`optional` | - ignored
`...` | - ignored

### Value

a data.frame object with row names giving the keys, and first column giving entry type.

### See Also

`BibEntry`, `as.BibEntry`

### Examples

    bib <- list(c(bibtype = "article", key = "mclean2014a", title = "My New Article",
      author = "Mathew W. McLean", journaltitle = "The Journal", date = "2014-01"),
      c(bibtype = "article", key = "mclean2014b", volume = 10, title = "My Newer Article",
      author = "Mathew W. McLean", journaltitle = "The Journal", date = "2014-02"))
    bib <- as.BibEntry(bib)
    as.data.frame(bib)

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