citr addin not working with absolute paths about citr HOT 2 OPEN

Not sure when @crsh will be around to answer this, but it looks like a simple workaround (haven't tested this yet!) may be to change the global citr options:

bib <- <<path to your bib>>

options(citr.bibliography_path = bib,
        citr.update_bib = bib)

And make sure you have the same path set in your YAML.

Assuming that works, it may be that the fix for this is to access the bibliography through rmarkdown::metadata$bibliography in citr::.onLoad().

I was wrong about the fix. It looks like the problem occurs in citr::get_bib_from_yaml(), which is defined in the script for citr::insert_citation(), way down on lines 784-802. Specifically, this bit of code:

absolute_bib_file <- sapply(
  file.path(rmd_path, yaml::yaml.load(yaml_front_matter)$bibliography)
  , tools::file_path_as_absolute
)

The file.path adds the rmd_path, which is the path to the directory where the rmarkdown is saved. This is being added to the file path in the YAML, hence C:/Documents/C:/Documents/... in the above example.

tools::file_path_as_absolute should add rmd_path by default if the bibliography is in the same folder as the rmarkdown document, so including file.path(rmd_path, yaml...) seems unnecessary. Just

absolute_bib_file <- sapply(
  yaml::yaml.load(yaml_front_matter)$bibliography,
  tools::file_path_as_absolute
) 

should work. That said, tools::file_path_as_absolute is also applied to the result of citr::get_bib_from_yaml() on line 120, so I'm not sure it's really doing anything useful in the get_bib function. I'm still pretty new to Github, but when I learn how to do pull requests, I might suggest removing that line from the function.

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Controlling relative paths with here::here() as in

  bibliography: "`r here::here('folder/bibliography.bib')`"

also fails for the same reason. (Excellent package, btw.)

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