> Are there other languages or software communities that do something like this? It would be nice not to have to invent this wheel.
While I do not use R regularly, I understand their community is largely academic-driven, and citations are strongly encouraged as seen in their documentation: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/citation.html Here is an example use of their `citation()` function: http://www.blopig.com/blog/2013/07/citing-r-packages-in-your-thesispaperassignments/ > citation() To cite R in publications use: R Core Team (2013). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL http://www.R-project.org/. A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Manual{, title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing}, author = {{R Core Team}}, organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.R-project.org/}, } Calling the `citation()` function generates a BibTex output ( http://www.bibtex.org/), which is one of the most common citation conventions. For reference, I believe this is the source code: https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/c3f7d32c842ca61fa23a25d4240d6caf980fe2ee/src/library/tools/R/citation.R
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