Data Science Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
Desktop Survival Project Home Preface Data Science Introducing R R Constructs R Tasks R Strings R Read, Write, and Create Data Template Data Exploration Data Wrangling Data Visualisation Statistics ML Template ML Scenarios ML Activities ML Applications ML Algorithms Cluster Analysis Decision Trees Computer Vision Graph Data Privacy Literate Data Science Coding with Style Resources Bibliography Index

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE UPDATED SURVIVAL GUIDE

Adding Bibliographies

Raw knitr supports the automatic generation of a bibliography for the packages attached into R. We can take advantage of this by specifying a LaTeX bibliography package like natbib. I prefer the (author, year) style and so I include the following in the preamble of my LaTeX documents.

\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}

If we attach the rattle package, we might like to cite it with the following LaTeX command:

\citep{R-rattle}

This will produce a citation like (Williams, 2020). The “p” in \citep places the parentheses around the citation, without which we get Williams (2020).

Then we can ask knitr to generate bibliographic entries for each attached package:

write_bib(sub("^.*/", "", grep("^/", searchpaths(), value=TRUE)),
          file="mydoc.bib")

Note that the bibliography is saved to a file named mydoc.bib.

At the end of the LaTeX document, where we want the bibliography to appear, we add the following:

\bibliographystyle{jss}
\bibliography{mydoc}

See Page  to see what the bibliography will look like.