[R] Format utils::bibentry with a 'corporate name'

[Erin Hodgess]

Maybe use \{ for the second one?

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 11:22 AM Sam Albers <tonightsthenight using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know of a way to force utils::bibentry to mimic the BibTex
> behaviour of using double { to force a "corporate name" in the author
> field to print correctly? For example take this bibentry:
>
> entry <- utils::bibentry(
>   bibtype = "Manual",
>   title = "The Thing",
>   author = "The Data People",
>   organization = "The Data Org",
>   year = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y")
> )
>
> entry
> #> People TD (2021). _The Thing_. The Data Org.
> print(entry, style = "citation")
> #>
> #> People TD (2021). _The Thing_. The Data Org.
> #>
> #> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
> #>
> #>   @Manual{,
> #>     title = {The Thing},
> #>     author = {The Data People},
> #>     organization = {The Data Org},
> #>     year = {2021},
> #>   }
>
> I can simply add "{" right in the author string which then passes that
> to the Bibtex entry but the author field is still thinking it is a
> person with a name and I also get some warnings:
>
> entry <- utils::bibentry(
>   bibtype = "Manual",
>   title = "The Thing",
>   author = "{The Data People}",
>   organization = "The Data Org",
>   year = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y")
> )
>
>
> print(entry, style = "citation")
> #> Warning in parseLatex(x): x:1: unexpected '}'
> #> Warning in parseLatex(x): x:1: unexpected END_OF_INPUT 'The'
> #> Warning in parseLatex(x): x:1: unexpected '}'
> #> Warning in parseLatex(x): x:1: unexpected END_OF_INPUT 'The'
> #> Warning in withCallingHandlers(.External2(C_parseRd, tcon, srcfile,
> "UTF-8", :
> #> <connection>:1: unexpected '}'
> #> Warning in withCallingHandlers(.External2(C_parseRd, tcon, srcfile,
> "UTF-8", : <connection>:4: unexpected END_OF_INPUT 'The Data Org.
> #> '
> #>
> #> People D (2021). _The Thing_. The Data Org.
> #>
> #> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
> #>
> #>   @Manual{,
> #>     title = {The Thing},
> #>     author = {{The Data People}},
> #>     organization = {The Data Org},
> #>     year = {2021},
> #>   }
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sam
>
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Erin Hodgess, PhD
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