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...authors should be encouraged to use a (new) Contributors: field in the DESCRIPTION file rather than packing all information into the Author: field, which at present cannot often be parsed by BibTeX. * Files: All test files referred to here can be found at http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/SCS/Private/Rbibs/ == Details == Around 16 Dec. 2009, I queried R-help about automating the extraction of citation()s from R packages. The stimulus was that some journals, notably JSS, now require a reference and citation of every R package mentioned, and it is a pain to create these manually, no less maintain t...

...t the function no longer generates keys for packages which contain *more than one citation*. I've tried debugging with browser(), but can't figure out how to make the lines around FIXME work. Can someone help? You can see the result from this at http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/SCS/Private/Rbibs/Rpackages-2.14.0.bib The function is also at: # Original code by Achim Zeileis, 16 Dec 2009, R-help # Added: support header and preamble Rpackages.bib <- function(filename = paste("Rpackages-",getRversion(), ".bib", sep=""), header=TRUE, preamble=NULL,...