RefManageR

1.4.0

Straightforward 'BibTeX' and 'BibLaTeX' Bibliography Management

8packages depend

123.9Kdownloads / year

50.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mathew W. McLeanFirst published 2014-02-2724 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides tools for importing and working with bibliographic references. It greatly enhances the 'bibentry' class by providing a class 'BibEntry' which stores 'BibTeX' and 'BibLaTeX' references, supports 'UTF-8' encoding, and can be easily searched by any field, by date ranges, and by various formats for name lists (author by last names, translator by full names, etc.). Entries can be updated, combined, sorted, printed in a number of styles, and exported. 'BibTeX' and 'BibLaTeX' '.bib' files can be read into 'R' and converted to 'BibEntry' objects. Interfaces to 'NCBI Entrez', 'CrossRef', and 'Zotero' are provided for importing references and references can be created from locally stored 'PDF' files using 'Poppler'. Includes functions for citing and generating a bibliography with hyperlinks for documents prepared with 'RMarkdown' or 'RHTML'.

Install

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

install.packages("RefManageR", 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("ropensci/RefManageR")

Development version from ropensci/RefManageR. 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-refmanager

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

# 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-RefManageR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.14

50.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 149 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 31%

Downloads

123.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,313 · ~339/day · ~10.3K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/refmanager

119Stars

25Forks

27Open issues

2Open PRs

8Releases

873Commits

11Contributors

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873 commits · Last activity 2024-11-19 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-11 · 1162026-07-07 · 119

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/refmanager on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

Research and citation (2)

codemeta.jsonJOSS paper

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (10)

xml2 jsonliteutilsplyrtoolshttr lubridate (>= 1.5.0)stringrmethodsbibtex

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr markdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

7indirect

eurostat knitcitations occCite sotkanet AMAPVox CopernicusClimate RGENERATEPREC bmco

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Mathew W. McLean

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Mathew W. McLean

Author, Maintainer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Mathew W.

no longer listed · 3.0.3 to 1.4.0

Package Timeline

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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-10-27
policy violation On the use of package 'bibtex', even in a resubmission
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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Package metadata

First published: 2014-02-27
Total releases: 24 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 | BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Download size: 890 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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