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Can someone please help me get the code below to work but by running biber, not bibtex? I have a biblatex style (nejm) that only works with biber. I'm currently running RStudio 0.98.501 and this is the first line of the log file.

This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3 (TeX Live 2013)
(format=xelatex     2013.5.30)  25 MAR 2014 17:55 entering extended
mode

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{test,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=numeric]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
%\addbibresource{/Users/simon/Documents/simon.bib}
\begin{document}
Test text 

\parencite{test} 
\printbibliography

\end{document}
Speravir
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  • You must at least change the value of option backend … – Speravir Mar 26 '14 at 03:10
  • When I change to backend=biber I have no problem compiling your code. (I have the same XeTeX installed.) What problems do you have? – Martin - マーチン Mar 26 '14 at 03:16
  • Package biblatex Info: Trying to load bibliographic data...

    Package biblatex Warning: File 'test.bbl' is wrong format version - expected 2. 3.

    Package biblatex Info: ... file 'test.bbl' found. (./test.bbl ! Undefined control sequence. ...c@refsection @entry@\blx@slist@name

    l.32 \endentry

     – spindoctor Mar 27 '14 at 17:42
  • Sorry, the above is the one error message I can find in the log file. I seem to recall having to upgrade biber because I encountered the same problem working in the TexShop environment, but I can't recall how I fixed the problem. @Martin – spindoctor Mar 27 '14 at 17:43
  • @spindoctor what versions of biblatex and biber do you use? Do you get warnings when you run biber? – Martin - マーチン Mar 28 '14 at 03:39
  • Hi there: I have biblatex 2.8 and biber 1.8. The thing is, I can run biber from TexShop and a .blg file is produced with this as the first line: [0] Config.pm:318> INFO - This is Biber 1.8 [0] Config.pm:321> INFO - Logfile is 'texshop.test.blg' [171] biber-darwin:275> INFO - === Mon Mar 31, 2014, 10:19:14

    But, when I run RStudio, no .blg is compiled. So maybe it's not even running Biber when I'm in Rstudio.

     – spindoctor Mar 31 '14 at 14:15

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