BibTeX entries in CITATION file

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote:

On 22/11/12 17:36, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

On 22/11/2012 11:28 AM, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote:

Dear List,

While trying to define a customised CITATION file for a package,
following R-exts, I realised that if I use only one 'citEntry' I got
both a text description and a BibTex entry for the package, as for the
'nlme' package:

--------------------------
citation('nlme')

To cite package 'nlme' in publications use:

Jose Pinheiro, Douglas Bates, Saikat DebRoy, Deepayan Sarkar and the
R Development Core Team (2012). nlme: Linear and Nonlinear Mixed
Effects Models. R package version 3.1-105.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Manual{,
title = {nlme: Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models},
author = {Jose Pinheiro and Douglas Bates and Saikat DebRoy and
Deepayan Sarkar and {R Core Team}},
year = {2012},
note = {R package version 3.1-105},
}

-----------------------------------


BUT, if I use two or more 'citEntry' in the CITATION file (e.g., for
the
manual and a book), the bibTeX entries are NOT shown any more, and only
the text description for the two or more entries are shown, as for the
'boot' package:

-----------------------------------
citation('boot')

To cite the 'boot' package in publications use:

Angelo Canty and Brian Ripley (2012). boot: Bootstrap R (S-Plus)
Functions. R package version 1.3-7.

Davison, A. C. & Hinkley, D. V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their
Applications. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN
0-521-57391-2
-----------------------------------

Is there any way to show the two bib entries for cases similar to the
'boot' package ?

toBibtex(citation("boot"))

should do it.

Thank you very much Achim and Duncan.

However, I was not clear enough. My question is if there is any way in
which I should modify the CITATION file of my package in order to show
the two or more bib entries automatically. For example, when you type:

citation("boot")

my expected output is something like:

------------
To cite the 'boot' package in publications use:

Angelo Canty and Brian Ripley (2012). boot: Bootstrap R (S-Plus)
Functions. R package version 1.3-7.

Davison, A. C. & Hinkley, D. V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their
Applications. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN
0-521-57391-2

BibTeX entries for for LaTeX users are:

....
....

----------------

Is there any way in which I can achieve this ?

No, this is currently not possible. format.bibentry() always omits the
BibTeX if there are 2 or more entries (in style = "citation").

The CRAN web page for the package always displays all BibTeX entries
though: http://CRAN.R-project.org/web/packages/boot/citation.html

Mauricio
--
=================================================
Linux user #454569 -- Ubuntu user #17469
=================================================
"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one
link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time"
(Sir Winston Churchill)