Interface for bibliography_entries

[jmcascalheira]

It would be great to be able to reorder dates of publications when using bibliography_entries(). It automatically sets an ascending order, when the most common way for CVs is using more recent dates first.

[mitchelloharawild]

How are you trying to order the publications?
bibliography_entries are processed differently to brief_entries and detailed_entries, as it uses biblatex. You can specify the biblatex sorting scheme using the sorting argument.

---
name: Mitchell O'Hara-Wild
date: "`r format(Sys.time(), '%B, %Y')`"
github: mitchelloharawild
headcolor: 414141
output: vitae::awesomecv
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE, warning = FALSE)
library(vitae)
```

# Publications

```{r}
knitr::write_bib(c("forecast", "vitae", "ggquiver", "naniar", "taipan"), "packages.bib")
bibliography_entries("packages.bib", sorting = "ydnt")
```

Possible sorting schemes can be found in the answer in this thread: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/51434/biblatex-citation-order

[mitchelloharawild]

@robjhyndman
Do you think it is possible to provide the entries in a custom order? This would allow us to display the entries in the order shown in the table, which could then be modified with arrange().

[jmcascalheira]

@mitchelloharawild
Sorry my bad! I didn't know the "ydnt" option for sorting. Many thanks!

[robjhyndman]

sorting='none' will retain the order the bibentries are already in. So then you can use tidyverse tools to arrange as you wish.

[mitchelloharawild]

Good to know. In that case, is there any other reason why the sorting option is needed?
I think sorting should be deprecated and require it to be sorting="none", so that the output order matches the displayed table order in R.
If bibliography entries don't require a title, it would also be neater to have the title added via markdown and remove this argument too.

[robjhyndman]

Yes, let's do that. As well as removing the arguments from bibliography_entries(), the following changes need to be made to knit_print.vitae_bibliography()

    \\newrefcontext[sorting="none"]\\setcounter{papers}{0}\\pagebreak[3]
    \\printbibliography[category=<<bibname>>,heading=none]<<endlabel>>\\setcounter{papers}{0}

[robjhyndman]

I'd forgotten that the title was also being used to create unique bib categories within bibliography_header(). Now all categories are called "bibRefereed journal papers" which causes conflicts. We still need to create unique bib category names each time bibliographic_entries() is called.

[mitchelloharawild]

I thought this would be handled here?
https://github.com/ropenscilabs/vitae/blob/31a489f34e4530471322c9162fd3569fb5850311/R/bibliography.R#L36

[robjhyndman]

Sorry. Forgot to rebuild after pulling.