The {bibtex} R allows for BibTeX bibliographies to be imported into R.
Within this release, we revive the {bibtex} originally written by Romain François! Previously, the package was orphaned on CRAN when the memory check tests were enabled for the first time. These checks identified various low-level leaks in the package’s use of R’s C API. After a few years, the task of addressing these errors quickly faded. There was a notable effort by Matt Wiese (GitHub) in PR #40. However, issues persisted. In the end, Diego Hernangómez saved the day by writing an entirely new bibtex parser using R. Thanks to Diego, the {bibtex} package will live on at CRAN.
bibtex news file entry for version 0.5.0 (2022-09-25)
New Features
- The underlying parsing logic of bibtex files has been completely rewritten (huge thank you to Diego Hernangómez (@dieghernan), PR #47)
Unit Tests
- Unit tests are now using testthat version 3 (Diego Hernangómez (@dieghernan), PR #46).