Re: [Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2011-12-19 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
Indeed I broke the function when adding support for bibentry objects... By the way, let's give credits back to Ceasars: I am not the author of the bibtex package, Romain Francois is. I just contributed the write.bib function, mainly inspired by Achim's function. Romain, I will send a fix for t

Re: [Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Friendly
On 12/19/2011 2:02 AM, Renaud Gaujoux wrote: Hi, I actually adapted and integrated this feature into Achim's -- nice -- function (posted on r-help). Romain included it a couple of weeks ago into the bibtex package as function write.bib, and submitted the update to CRAN, but some NOTEs in the

Re: [Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2011-12-18 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
Hi, I actually adapted and integrated this feature into Achim's -- nice -- function (posted on r-help). Romain included it a couple of weeks ago into the bibtex package as function write.bib, and submitted the update to CRAN, but some NOTEs in the check delayed its availability on CRAN. You c

Re: [Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2011-12-16 Thread Achim Zeileis
Michael, meanwhile the "bibentry" class that Kurt mentioned back in the discussion in 2010 is fully implemented in R. Hence the code can be simplified when working with the "bibentry" objects directly (instead of the "Bibtex" objects derived from them). I've quickly hacked some code to illus

Re: [Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Friendly
Back in 2010 I raised this issue, and there was some discussion, https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-November/058987.html The goal, then, as now is to have a way to produce a bibtex-clean .bib file (i.e., not requiring manual editing except in unusual circumstances) reflecting installed

Re: [Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2010-11-03 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Michael Friendly writes: Thanks for the suggestions. In fact, we are currently working on this issue. A lot of improvements have already been done, see ?person and ?bibentry for R 2.12.0 or later, especially the details and examples sections. Some more work still needs to be done, though. We

Re: [Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Friendly
On 11/3/2010 10:42 AM, John Fox wrote: Hi Michael, FWIW, I've added a CITATION file to the car package on R-Forge. When I composed a CITATION file for the heplots package, I had to root around in R/library to find something to use as a template. The main reason for doing this was to have ci

Re: [Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2010-11-03 Thread Yihui Xie
I strongly support this proposal! I also find it inconvenient to cite some R packages and really do not like edit the BibTeX entries manually. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On

[Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Friendly
== Summary == * Problem: BibTeX entries extracted from R packages via citation() require too much manual editing to be of general use. * Proposal: Date: fields should be made mandatory in package DESCRIPTION files, perhaps beginning with warnings from R CMD check * Proposal: Package authors sh