[Contribution Proposal] Support parsing from MEDLINE tagged format to BibLaTeX

[gifi]

Hi @mwmclean

I'd like to know if contributions to RefManageR are welcome. I have a custom R package that parses a file in MEDLINE tagged format (aka .nbib, as in this page) to yield a matching BibLaTeX database record. The parsing follows the specifications found here, is quite naive since there is not (yet) formal grammar, but is effective (at least up to my needs).

I am aware that using Entrez Programming Utilities (aka E-utilities) is be the best and recommended way to computationally interact with PubMed. But I have that code sitting on my computer and would enjoy to share it. Quite often, it comes handy to pick an .nbib file and quickly add its content into a BiLaTeX database.

So, before engaging in any pull request, I'd like to know your policy as of contributions. The code has one big limitation: there is no support of BibTeX, only BiLaTeX records are created, a choice I made because I don't use BibTeX anymore. Also, there is no really strong motivation of using R other than I wrote the code when I was already relying on R to accomplish other programming tasks. Still, it seems this would be the right place to let the code be available to PubMeD & BibLaTeX users.

Cheers,
Eric.

[mwmclean]

I am definitely happy to consider pull requests.

RefManageR includes functions that can convert BibLaTeX to BibTeX if the user desires.