bib2df::bib2df() fails to load fields when the field separator (",") is preceded by a newline, as in the following example:
@article{SHBP
,title = "Efficient DC Analysis of RVJ Circuits for Moment and Derivative Commutations of Interconnect Networks"
,author = " S. H. Batterywala and H. Narayanan "
,journal = "12th International Conference on VLSI Design"
,pages = "169-174"
,year = 1999
}
reprex:
f <- tempfile()
download.file('https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~trivedi/LatexHelp/Docs/ref.bib', f)
bib2df::bib2df(f)
With version 1.1.1 it loads in new columns "X.≪fieldname≫":
# A tibble: 9 × 41
CATEGORY BIBTE…¹ ADDRESS ANNOTE AUTHOR BOOKT…² CHAPTER CROSS…³ EDITION EDITOR HOWPU…⁴ INSTI…⁵ JOURNAL KEY MONTH NOTE NUMBER ORGAN…⁶
<chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <list> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <list> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
1 ARTICLE SHBP NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
2 ARTICLE SIE NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
3 BOOK HN NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
4 BOOK DON NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
5 MASTERSTHE… GAK NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
6 MASTERSTHE… GT NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
7 MASTERSTHE… NJB NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
8 MANUAL PVM NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
9 MISC PVMS NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
# … with 23 more variables: PAGES <chr>, PUBLISHER <chr>, SCHOOL <chr>, SERIES <chr>, TITLE <chr>, TYPE <chr>, VOLUME <chr>, YEAR <chr>,
# X.TITLE <chr>, X.AUTHOR <chr>, X.JOURNAL <chr>, X.PAGES <chr>, X.YEAR <chr>, X.VOLUME <chr>, X.NUMBER <chr>, X.PUBLISHER <chr>,
# X.MONTH <chr>, X.SCHOOL <chr>, X.ORGANIZATION <chr>, X.ADDRESS <chr>, X.NOTE <chr>, X.KEY <chr>, X.HOWPUBLISHED <chr>, and abbreviated
# variable names ¹BIBTEXKEY, ²BOOKTITLE, ³CROSSREF, ⁴HOWPUBLISHED, ⁵INSTITUTION, ⁶ORGANIZATION
With version 1.1.2 it doesn't load at all (all values are either NA, character(0) or an empty string):
# A tibble: 9 × 26
CATEGORY BIBTE…¹ ADDRESS ANNOTE AUTHOR BOOKT…² CHAPTER CROSS…³ EDITION EDITOR HOWPU…⁴ INSTI…⁵ JOURNAL KEY MONTH NOTE NUMBER ORGAN…⁶
<chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <list> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <list> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
1 ARTICLE SHBP NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA "" NA NA NA NA NA
2 ARTICLE SIE NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA "" NA NA NA "" NA
3 BOOK HN NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
4 BOOK DON NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
5 MASTERSTHE… GAK NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA "" NA NA NA
6 MASTERSTHE… GT NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA "" NA NA NA
7 MASTERSTHE… NJB NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA "" NA NA NA
8 MANUAL PVM "" NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA "" "" NA ""
9 MISC PVMS NA NA <chr> NA NA NA NA <chr> "" NA NA "" NA NA NA NA
# … with 8 more variables: PAGES <chr>, PUBLISHER <chr>, SCHOOL <chr>, SERIES <chr>, TITLE <chr>, TYPE <chr>, VOLUME <chr>, YEAR <chr>,
# and abbreviated variable names ¹BIBTEXKEY, ²BOOKTITLE, ³CROSSREF, ⁴HOWPUBLISHED, ⁵INSTITUTION, ⁶ORGANIZATION
I am not sure how common this is (probably not at all), but this did happen on the first example .bib I found online and it seems like a basic parsing error.
bib2df::bib2df() fails to load fields when the field separator (",") is preceded by a newline, as in the following example:
reprex:
With version 1.1.1 it loads in new columns "X.≪fieldname≫":
With version 1.1.2 it doesn't load at all (all values are either NA, character(0) or an empty string):
I am not sure how common this is (probably not at all), but this did happen on the first example .bib I found online and it seems like a basic parsing error.