R Observatory: Metrics for rbibutils version 2.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rbibutils

2.4.1

Read 'Bibtex' Files and Convert Between Bibliography Formats

5packages depend

5.2Mdownloads / year

73.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Georgi N. BoshnakovFirst published 2020-07-1827 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Read and write 'Bibtex' files. Convert between bibliography formats, including 'Bibtex', 'Biblatex', 'PubMed', 'Endnote', and 'Bibentry'. Includes a port of the 'bibutils' utilities by Chris Putnam https://sourceforge.net/projects/bibutils/. Supports all bibliography formats and character encodings implemented in 'bibutils'.

Install

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

install.packages("rbibutils", 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("GeoBosh/rbibutils")

Development version from GeoBosh/rbibutils. 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-rbibutils

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-rbibutils

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-rbibutils

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.67

73.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-27
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-24
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 656 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 83%
References docs: 71%

Downloads

5.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #156 · ~14.2K/day · ~431.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

325.2K30 days

1.2M90 days

5.2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on64.5K r2u21 autocran187.8K conda_forge360 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ geobosh/rbibutils

19Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

163Commits

2Contributors

rbibtexbiblatexbibliographybibutilsr-packageconversionpubmed

163 commits · Last activity 2026-03-05 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-07 · 132026-07-07 · 19

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/geobosh/rbibutils on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (2)

utilstools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

2,211indirect

Rdpack doRNG jab.adverse.reactions litedown tidyseurat

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Georgi N. Boshnakov

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Georgi N. Boshnakov

Author, Maintainer

Chris Putman

Author

Contributors (3)

R Core Team

Contributor · added in 2.3

Richard Mathar

Contributor

Johannes Wilm

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Boshnakov

no longer listed · 1.0.2 to 2.4.1

Package Timeline

27 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-07-18
Total releases: 27 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rbibutils")

Format

Boshnakov, G. N., R Core Team, Mathar, R., Putman, C., & Wilm, J. (2026). rbibutils: Read 'Bibtex' Files and Convert Between Bibliography Formats (Version 2.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rbibutils

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rbibutils version 2.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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