Straightforward Bibliography Management in R with the RefManageR Package
Mathew W. McLean

TL;DR
The RefManageR package for R simplifies bibliographic reference management by supporting BibLaTeX, enabling importing, editing, and citing references with advanced features and integrations for RMarkdown and RHTML documents.
Contribution
It introduces comprehensive support for BibLaTeX in R, including importing, exporting, and citation functionalities, enhancing bibliographic workflows in R.
Findings
Supports full BibLaTeX functionality in R
Enables importing and converting .bib files between BibTeX and BibLaTeX
Provides tools for searching, updating, and exporting references
Abstract
This work introduces the R package RefManageR, which provides tools for importing and working with bibliographic references. It extends the bibentry class in R in a number of useful ways, including providing R with previously unavailable support for BibLaTeX. BibLaTeX provides a superset of the functionality of BibTeX, including full Unicode support, no memory limitations, additional fields and entry types, and more sophisticated sorting of references. RefManageR provides functions for citing and generating a bibliography with hyperlinks for documents prepared with RMarkdown or RHTML. Existing .bib files can be read into R and converted from BibTeX to BibLaTeX and vice versa. References can also be imported via queries to NCBI's Entrez, Zotero libraries, Google Scholar, and CrossRef. Additionally, references can be created by reading PDFs stored on the user's machine with the help of…
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TopicsData Analysis with R · Data Visualization and Analytics · Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
