R Observatory: Metrics for bibtex version 0.5.3

Name: R Observatory: Metrics for bibtex version 0.5.3
Creator: James Joseph Balamuta

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bibtex

0.5.3Package record

Bibtex Parser

4packages dependsuggested by 20

171.8Kdownloads / year

93.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by James Joseph BalamutaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Utility to parse a bibtex file.

Changes in 0.5.3

bibtex now requires R 3.6.0 or later, which the parser already relied on, and no longer imports backports.
read.bib() now reads BibLaTeX dates such as 2020, 2020-05, 2020/2021, 1723~ and -0044, taking the year from each, and gives the right year for non-ISO dates such as 17-05-2020 (@HughParsonage, #15; @Fifis, #56).
read.bib() now fills in journal from a BibLaTeX journaltitle field, so @Article entries that only have journaltitle are kept (@Fifis, #57).
read.bib() is more robust (@bastistician, #64):
Brace-less @Comment lines, such as @Comment my comment, are skipped and the rest of the file is read.
A % comment on the same line as the closing brace of an entry or a @String is ignored and the rest of the file is read.

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A line in a braced field value that starts with @ but does not open an entry, such as a wrapped e-mail address, stays part of that field.
An empty file, or one holding only comments, reads as an empty result.
Warnings raised while parsing now reach the caller, and input the parser cannot read, such as an unreadable file, an entry or @String with no closing brace, or one delimited by parentheses, is reported as an error.
Errors include the parser's message when it has one, e.g. Invalid bib file: unable to open file to read.
do_read_bib() gets the same improvements and returns an empty list for an empty or comment-only file.
Snapshot tests now record the parsed entries rather than R's printed output, so they pass on R 4.5.3 and later, including R-devel.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("bibtex", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ropensci/bibtex")

Development version from ropensci/bibtex. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-bibtex

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-bibtex

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-bibtex

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.3

READMEYes · 129 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

171.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,015 · ~471/day · ~14.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

13.5K30 days

38.6K90 days

171.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.9K r2u38 autocran80.6K conda_forge153 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/bibtex ↗Organization: ropensci

41Stars

12Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

194Commits

11Commit identities

bibtexparserr

194 commits · Last activity 2026-09-22 · +2.5% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 78%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 378
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-03-31 · 382026-09-23 · 41

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/bibtex on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)

Docs source (1)

pkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

EditorConfig

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bibtex adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

5indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 3

Suggested by 20

Show all 24 packagesHide all 24 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

RefManageR free1way.docreg apathe softbib

Suggests, most downloaded first

mvtnorm multcomp libcoin coin partykit cols4all party mboost cffr tram mlt basefun surveillance rcrossref rmdfiltr handlr allMT markovMSM iemisctext formatBibtex

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

James Joseph Balamuta

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2014)

Romain Francois

Author, Copyright holder

principal developer of bibtex R package

Diego Hernangómez

Author · added in 0.5.0

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Kurt Hornik

Contributor · added in 0.3-4

Michael Koohafkan

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Mathew W. McLean

Contributor

Brian Ripley

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

compilation fixes

Previously maintained by Kurt Hornik (0.1-0 to 0.3-6).

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Mathew W.

no longer listed · 0.4.2 to 0.4.2.3

Balamuta

no longer listed · 0.5.0 to 0.5.3

McLean

no longer listed · 0.5.0 to 0.5.3

Releases (20)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26

Package metadata

First published: 2009-12-11
Total releases: 20 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 90 KB

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citation("bibtex")

Format

Balamuta, J. J., Chamberlain, S., Francois, R., Hernangómez, D., Hornik, K., Koohafkan, M., McLean, M. W., & Ripley, B. (2026). bibtex: Bibtex Parser (Version 0.5.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bibtex

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bibtex version 0.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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