Very nice. We'll give it a couple of weeks and then announce more broadly? I'll start improving my package citations shortly.
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fhcrc.org> wrote: > On 04/25/2014 01:46 PM, Martin Morgan wrote: > >> On 04/24/2014 01:51 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote: >> >>> Agreed. Would be nice if the build system could detect changes to >>> CITATION >>> and update the web page accordingly. Must already happen for DESCRIPTION. >>> >> >> This will be implemented (over the next several weeks). >> > > Dan has implemented this, see e.g., > > 1. http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/GenomicRanges.html > 2. http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/limma.html > 3. http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/GenomeInfoDb.html > > The citations are derived from a CITATION file if it exists (examples 1 > and 2) or auto-generated from the DESCRIPTION file (example 3), using the > equivalent of print(citation("GenomicRanges"), style="html") with some > post-processing to work around bugs in print.bibentry related to parsing > strings with embedded escape sequences '%' (example 1). print.bibentry > prints the citation, but not for instance citHeader (in example 2). > > Martin > > > >> Martin >> >> >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > 1100 Fairview Ave. N. > PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 > > Location: Arnold Building M1 B861 > Phone: (206) 667-2793 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
