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Addressing bibtex rchck errors
Bibliographies are a time honored tradition of scholarly work. They provide a meaningful reference overview of the research that has gone into a new paper, algorithm, or talk. Moreover, as Isaac Newton once remarked, “if I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Without being able to cite the past, the future is bound to repeat it unintentionally.
todo: discuss reproducibility, ref manager, rbibutils, Rdpack, …
The bibtex R package was implemented by Romain François back in 2009. However, the package has a few compiled code errors that the maintainer did not have time to address and, thus, is now an “ORPHANED” package on CRAN. In Fall 2020, the project was moved over into rOpenSci.
The goal of this project is to fix the underlying memory issues as outlined in:
https://github.com/ropensci/bibtex/issues/33
Tackling other feature requests is also of interest:
https://github.com/ropensci/bibtex/issues
The `bibtex` package provides a way to manage bibliographies with R. Moreover, it’s a pinnacle package for the reproducible research movement. Many R packages that depend upon `bibtex` are in limbo due to the lack of a maintainer preventing updates and/or requiring significant modifications
Please get in touch after completing at least one of the tests below.
- EVALUATING MENTOR: James Balamuta <[email protected]>
- Co-mentor: TBA
Do one or several — doing more hard tests makes you more likely to be selected.
- Easy: Address one feature request and/or issue.
- Medium/Hard: Fix one of the rchck issues that have arisen.
Students, please post a link to your test results here.
- EXAMPLE STUDENT 1 NAME, LINK TO GITHUB PROFILE, LINK TO TEST RESULTS.