as.BibEntry {RefManageR}

Coerce to a BibEntry object

Description

Functions to check if an object is a BibEntry, or coerce it if possible.

Usage

as.BibEntry(x)

is.BibEntry(x)

Arguments

x

any R object.

Details

as.BibEntry is able to coerce suitably formatted character vectors, bibentry objects, lists, and data.frames to BibEntry objects. See the examples.

Value

as.BibEntry - if successful, an object of class BibEntry.

is.BibEntry - logical; TRUE if x is a BibEntry object.

Note

Each entry to be coerced should have a bibtype, key, and all required fields for the specified bibtype.

See Also

BibEntry

Examples

if (requireNamespace("bibtex")) {
    file.name <- system.file("Bib", "biblatexExamples.bib", package="RefManageR")
    bib <- suppressMessages(ReadBib(file.name))[[20:21]]
    identical(as.BibEntry(unlist(bib)), bib)  ## see also RelistBibEntry

    identical(as.BibEntry(unclass(bib)), bib)

    identical(as.BibEntry(as.data.frame(bib)), bib)
 }

bib <- c(bibtype = "article", key = "mclean2014", title = "My New Article",
  author = "Mathew W. McLean", journaltitle = "The Journal", date = "2014-01")
as.BibEntry(bib)

bib <- bibentry(bibtype = "article", key = "mclean2014", title = "My New Article",
journal = "The Journal", year = 2014, author = "Mathew W. McLean")
print(bib, .bibstyle = "JSS")
as.BibEntry(bib)

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", title = "Newer Article",
  author = "Mathew W. McLean", journaltitle = "The Journal", date = "2014-02"))
as.BibEntry(bib)