! Package biblatex Error: Category 'bibRefereed journal papers' already declared.

[michielvandijk]

Similar to the RobHyndmanCV.rmd, I tried to create more than two bib lists (see below). However, when I do this, I get the following error: ! Package biblatex Error: Category 'bibRefereed journal papers' already declared. When I run only one of the scripts (thesis or research-papers) it works fine. First I thought it could be related to my Miktex installation. I deleted it and replaced with tinytex but the error remains, hence, I assume it must be something in the package.

PhD thesis

bibliography_entries("bib/VanDijk.bib", startlabel = "papersstart") %>%
  filter(bibtype == "PhdThesis")

Refereed research papers

# Normal articles excluding editorials
bibliography_entries("bib/VanDijk.bib") %>%
 filter(bibtype == "Article") %>%
  arrange(year, author)

[robjhyndman]

Can you set output to

output:
  vitae::hyndman:
    keep_tex: true

and then post the resulting tex and bib file.

[michielvandijk]

Here they are, uploaded as zip

CV.zip

[michielvandijk]

Michiel_van_dijk_cv_test.log

Perhaps useful as well, the log file.

[robjhyndman]

Can you also provide the Rmd?

[michielvandijk]

Michiel_van_dijk_cv_test.zip

[robjhyndman]

That compiles for me without errors. Are you using the latest github version of vitae?

[michielvandijk]

I am not. I installed from CRAN. I will update now and retry.

[michielvandijk]

Works! So I guess this bug was fixed in the Github version. Thanks for the support! Great package.

[robjhyndman]

Actually, not so much a bug as a change in how the function is used. Previously, the title was an argument in bibliography_entries() and it had to be unique for each entry. If you didn't use it, the default was "Refereed journal papers". So if you used two or more bibliography_entries() calls leaving title as default, it created this error. We now don't use a title argument and generate a unique identifying string on the fly.