Encoding problems reading .bib into R using RefManageR











up vote
0
down vote

favorite












I'm trying to follow this blog post to automatically generate .md files for each of my publications, for use in blogdown. The function in the post uses the package RefManageR to read entries from a BibTeX file, and creates a .md file for each entry.



My problem is that I cannot get RefManageR to read special characters correctly, even when I take pains to save the .bib with UTF-8 encoding and specify the encoding in the call to ReadBib.



As an example: I generate my .bib using Zotero, by exporting a collection to BibTeX with UTF-8 encoding. It gives me the following entry in my .bib:



@article{senior_pantropical_2017,
title = {A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest
degradation and conversion on local temperature},
volume = {7},
issn = {2045-7758},
doi = {10.1002/ece3.3262},
number = {19},
journal = {Ecology and Evolution},
author = {Senior, Rebecca A. and Hill, Jane K. and González del
Pliego, Pamela and Goode, Laurel K. and Edwards, David P.},
month = oct,
year = {2017},
pages = {7897--7908}
}


As you can see, there is an accent on one of the author names (González del Pliego). I check the encoding by opening in RStudio (where the characters are displayed correctly) and to be doubly sure I do 'Save with encoding'. No matter what I do, when I read the .bib into R like so:



ReadBib('path/to/refs.bib', .Encoding = "UTF-8")


It always shows up like this:



[1] R. A. Senior, J. K. Hill, P. González del Pliego, et al. “A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest degradation and conversion on local temperature”. In: _Ecology and Evolution_7.19 (Oct. 2017), pp. 7897-7908. ISSN: 2045-7758. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3262.


Why is the á appearing as á? I've tried various packages and functions (RefManageR::ReadBib, bibtex::read.bib and bib2df::bib2df) and various different ways of specifying and checking the encoding. I can't typeset the characters manually (e.g. {'a}) because some of my publications have a lot of authors. Not sure how to proceed.










share|improve this question
























  • UPDATE: for now I can't figure this out so I am manually typesetting the characters, although that is still a bit iffy for some characters (e.g. í )
    – rasenior
    Nov 26 at 18:16















up vote
0
down vote

favorite












I'm trying to follow this blog post to automatically generate .md files for each of my publications, for use in blogdown. The function in the post uses the package RefManageR to read entries from a BibTeX file, and creates a .md file for each entry.



My problem is that I cannot get RefManageR to read special characters correctly, even when I take pains to save the .bib with UTF-8 encoding and specify the encoding in the call to ReadBib.



As an example: I generate my .bib using Zotero, by exporting a collection to BibTeX with UTF-8 encoding. It gives me the following entry in my .bib:



@article{senior_pantropical_2017,
title = {A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest
degradation and conversion on local temperature},
volume = {7},
issn = {2045-7758},
doi = {10.1002/ece3.3262},
number = {19},
journal = {Ecology and Evolution},
author = {Senior, Rebecca A. and Hill, Jane K. and González del
Pliego, Pamela and Goode, Laurel K. and Edwards, David P.},
month = oct,
year = {2017},
pages = {7897--7908}
}


As you can see, there is an accent on one of the author names (González del Pliego). I check the encoding by opening in RStudio (where the characters are displayed correctly) and to be doubly sure I do 'Save with encoding'. No matter what I do, when I read the .bib into R like so:



ReadBib('path/to/refs.bib', .Encoding = "UTF-8")


It always shows up like this:



[1] R. A. Senior, J. K. Hill, P. González del Pliego, et al. “A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest degradation and conversion on local temperature”. In: _Ecology and Evolution_7.19 (Oct. 2017), pp. 7897-7908. ISSN: 2045-7758. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3262.


Why is the á appearing as á? I've tried various packages and functions (RefManageR::ReadBib, bibtex::read.bib and bib2df::bib2df) and various different ways of specifying and checking the encoding. I can't typeset the characters manually (e.g. {'a}) because some of my publications have a lot of authors. Not sure how to proceed.










share|improve this question
























  • UPDATE: for now I can't figure this out so I am manually typesetting the characters, although that is still a bit iffy for some characters (e.g. í )
    – rasenior
    Nov 26 at 18:16













up vote
0
down vote

favorite









up vote
0
down vote

favorite











I'm trying to follow this blog post to automatically generate .md files for each of my publications, for use in blogdown. The function in the post uses the package RefManageR to read entries from a BibTeX file, and creates a .md file for each entry.



My problem is that I cannot get RefManageR to read special characters correctly, even when I take pains to save the .bib with UTF-8 encoding and specify the encoding in the call to ReadBib.



As an example: I generate my .bib using Zotero, by exporting a collection to BibTeX with UTF-8 encoding. It gives me the following entry in my .bib:



@article{senior_pantropical_2017,
title = {A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest
degradation and conversion on local temperature},
volume = {7},
issn = {2045-7758},
doi = {10.1002/ece3.3262},
number = {19},
journal = {Ecology and Evolution},
author = {Senior, Rebecca A. and Hill, Jane K. and González del
Pliego, Pamela and Goode, Laurel K. and Edwards, David P.},
month = oct,
year = {2017},
pages = {7897--7908}
}


As you can see, there is an accent on one of the author names (González del Pliego). I check the encoding by opening in RStudio (where the characters are displayed correctly) and to be doubly sure I do 'Save with encoding'. No matter what I do, when I read the .bib into R like so:



ReadBib('path/to/refs.bib', .Encoding = "UTF-8")


It always shows up like this:



[1] R. A. Senior, J. K. Hill, P. González del Pliego, et al. “A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest degradation and conversion on local temperature”. In: _Ecology and Evolution_7.19 (Oct. 2017), pp. 7897-7908. ISSN: 2045-7758. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3262.


Why is the á appearing as á? I've tried various packages and functions (RefManageR::ReadBib, bibtex::read.bib and bib2df::bib2df) and various different ways of specifying and checking the encoding. I can't typeset the characters manually (e.g. {'a}) because some of my publications have a lot of authors. Not sure how to proceed.










share|improve this question















I'm trying to follow this blog post to automatically generate .md files for each of my publications, for use in blogdown. The function in the post uses the package RefManageR to read entries from a BibTeX file, and creates a .md file for each entry.



My problem is that I cannot get RefManageR to read special characters correctly, even when I take pains to save the .bib with UTF-8 encoding and specify the encoding in the call to ReadBib.



As an example: I generate my .bib using Zotero, by exporting a collection to BibTeX with UTF-8 encoding. It gives me the following entry in my .bib:



@article{senior_pantropical_2017,
title = {A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest
degradation and conversion on local temperature},
volume = {7},
issn = {2045-7758},
doi = {10.1002/ece3.3262},
number = {19},
journal = {Ecology and Evolution},
author = {Senior, Rebecca A. and Hill, Jane K. and González del
Pliego, Pamela and Goode, Laurel K. and Edwards, David P.},
month = oct,
year = {2017},
pages = {7897--7908}
}


As you can see, there is an accent on one of the author names (González del Pliego). I check the encoding by opening in RStudio (where the characters are displayed correctly) and to be doubly sure I do 'Save with encoding'. No matter what I do, when I read the .bib into R like so:



ReadBib('path/to/refs.bib', .Encoding = "UTF-8")


It always shows up like this:



[1] R. A. Senior, J. K. Hill, P. González del Pliego, et al. “A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest degradation and conversion on local temperature”. In: _Ecology and Evolution_7.19 (Oct. 2017), pp. 7897-7908. ISSN: 2045-7758. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3262.


Why is the á appearing as á? I've tried various packages and functions (RefManageR::ReadBib, bibtex::read.bib and bib2df::bib2df) and various different ways of specifying and checking the encoding. I can't typeset the characters manually (e.g. {'a}) because some of my publications have a lot of authors. Not sure how to proceed.







r bibtex blogdown






share|improve this question















share|improve this question













share|improve this question




share|improve this question








edited Nov 19 at 18:28

























asked Nov 19 at 16:21









rasenior

1610




1610












  • UPDATE: for now I can't figure this out so I am manually typesetting the characters, although that is still a bit iffy for some characters (e.g. í )
    – rasenior
    Nov 26 at 18:16


















  • UPDATE: for now I can't figure this out so I am manually typesetting the characters, although that is still a bit iffy for some characters (e.g. í )
    – rasenior
    Nov 26 at 18:16
















UPDATE: for now I can't figure this out so I am manually typesetting the characters, although that is still a bit iffy for some characters (e.g. í )
– rasenior
Nov 26 at 18:16




UPDATE: for now I can't figure this out so I am manually typesetting the characters, although that is still a bit iffy for some characters (e.g. í )
– rasenior
Nov 26 at 18:16

















active

oldest

votes











Your Answer






StackExchange.ifUsing("editor", function () {
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function () {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function () {
StackExchange.snippets.init();
});
});
}, "code-snippets");

StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "1"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});

function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});


}
});














draft saved

draft discarded


















StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f53378793%2fencoding-problems-reading-bib-into-r-using-refmanager%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);

Post as a guest















Required, but never shown






























active

oldest

votes













active

oldest

votes









active

oldest

votes






active

oldest

votes
















draft saved

draft discarded




















































Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!


  • Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!

But avoid



  • Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.

  • Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.


To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.





Some of your past answers have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from answering.


Please pay close attention to the following guidance:


  • Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!

But avoid



  • Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.

  • Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.


To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.




draft saved


draft discarded














StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f53378793%2fencoding-problems-reading-bib-into-r-using-refmanager%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);

Post as a guest















Required, but never shown





















































Required, but never shown














Required, but never shown












Required, but never shown







Required, but never shown

































Required, but never shown














Required, but never shown












Required, but never shown







Required, but never shown







Popular posts from this blog

"Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'ON'. (on update cascade, on delete cascade,)

Alcedinidae

Origin of the phrase “under your belt”?