+1.  this will be a good motivation for maintainers to get the CITATION
entry right.


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Wolfgang Huber <whu...@embl.de> wrote:

> I wonder whether the software that makes the package landing pages (e.g.:
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/minfi.html ) could be
> tweaked to display the actual citation suggested in a package CITATION file.
>
> Right now, it says 'To cite this package in a publication, start R and
> enter: citation(“minfi”)’. Which is already a good start, but requires 
> the
> reader to have an R session available, install the package, and type these
> words. Things that could be easily automated, and where there is no obvious
> benefit from having the user do these computations, as their result is
> anyway predictable.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Kind regards
>         Wolfgang
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