citeR

This R-function creates a .bib-file that includes the citations from all the packages that you have used in a project. The input can be a file or folder. The function will use all R-files and Rmd-files and extract the

You must specify

• the input

You can specify

• the output file location and name
• a vector of packagaes to exclude

citeR <- function(input, output, exclude)

Code to install packages to your system

install_package_if_missing <- function(pkg) {
  if (! pkg %in% installed.packages()[, "Package"]) install.packages(pkg)
}
install_package_if_missing("tidyverse")
install_package_if_missing("purr")

How to install a package/R-file from GitHub

First, you need to install the devtools package. You can do this from CRAN. Invoke R and then type

install.packages("devtools")

Load the devtools package.

library(devtools)

Usually you just use install_github("author/package") but it's not yet a package. Therefore, just do as follows

  devtools::source_url(
    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sebaristoteles/citeR/main/cite.R"
  )