R missing bib key in citation() output

Question

I am using citation() to automatically get the bib entries for R packages. However, its output does not have a key.

Example:

utils:::print.bibentry(citation(), style = "Bibtex")

Output:

@Manual{, title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing}, author = {{R Core Team}}, organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.R-project.org/}, }

I would like something like this:

@Manual{mykey999, title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing}, author = {{R Core Team}}, organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.R-project.org/}, }

I've tried the same command with the "key" argument but it changes nothing:

utils:::print.bibentry(citation(), style = "Bibtex", key= "mykey0")

Any idea?

Frank · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-12 17:12:44Z

You can do

z = citation() z$key = "Hullo" print(z, "Bibtex")

which gives

@Manual{Hullo, title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing}, author = {{R Core Team}}, organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.R-project.org/}, }

Alternately, there's the silly one-liner:

print(`$<-`(citation(), key, "Hullo"), "Bibtex")

I guess using ::: to access print (as in the OP) is overkill here. If you like looking at internals, though, maybe have a gander at utils:::`$<-.bibentry`. From there, you can see that expected assignments are to...

utils:::bibentry_attribute_names # [1] "bibtype" "textVersion" "header" "footer" "key"

Alex2006 · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-12 15:25:43Z

Anytime an R user applies the function, they will get the same result by definition of the function itself. You have to copy the output result (bib entry) or write it to a file and there you can choose and the bibkey to any bibkey you want.

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