Agreed. Would be nice if the build system could detect changes to CITATION and update the web page accordingly. Must already happen for DESCRIPTION.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Vincent Carey <st...@channing.harvard.edu>wrote: > +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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
