On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:38:38 +1000 Gordon Smyth wrote: > >Note also that R does have a User Guide, i.e., while there is plenty > >of excellent documentation, > >there is no single document which is a guide to the whole project. > > Oops, I meant to write "R does not have a User Guide". > > Just to explain this further, the citation() function asks me to cite > a "Manual"
Well, @Manual indicates just the type of BibTeX entry which is the closest thing you have in BibTeX as there is not @Software or something similar. > with the title "R: A language and environment for statistical > computing". Although R comes with excellent documentation, including > at least 6 manuals on different aspects of the software, no manual or > document with that title actually exists, as far as I know. The idea is that you can cite the software as a whole which also has an ISBN number which makes it good enough for many publishers to accept it (and btw has also led to some faxes ordering the `book' "R: A Language and..." in Vienna). Anyway, if it is possible to cite the software directly, you don't want to have some surrogate paper which documents part of the software, a much earlier version, or... When it is not possible to cite software directly, it should be - although I understand that this is not just as simple as saying it. Z ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
