fatal flex scanner internal error

[MichelMoser]

Hello,
I am trying to use bibtex package to mine a bibtex file for certain keywords.
When trying the read.bib method, i get following error:

bib <- read.bib( package = "bibtex" )
Error in read.bib(package = "bibtex") : lex fatal error:
fatal flex scanner internal error--end of buffer missed

sessionInfo()

R version 3.1.3 (2015-03-09)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 8 x64 (build 9200)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Switzerland.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Switzerland.1252    LC_MONETARY=German_Switzerland.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                        LC_TIME=German_Switzerland.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] bibtex_0.4.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.1.3

Thanks

[crsh]

I have encountered this error with very long bib files, too. I have implemented a hack to circumvent this problem in one of my packages.

[MichelMoser]

Thank you, i will have a look for it.
Could i use CITR also to do some mining of bibtex documents (search by keywords on different fields like author or abstract?
Or is it just for citation entries in markdown text?

[crsh]

It's just for inserting citations. But you are welcome to use the code for your purposes.

[romainfrancois]

@MichelMoser can you prepare a reprex please