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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 29/10/2021 1:21 p.m., Sam Albers 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:

Enter it like this:

entry <- utils::bibentry(
   bibtype = "Manual",
   title = "The Thing",
   author = person("The Data People"),
   organization = "The Data Org",
   year = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y")
)


There's an example just like this in the help page.  Sometimes it helps 
to look there.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> 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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