I like Thomas' suggestion,
eg,in addition to citing papers or books that discuss details of use, e.g., citing Venalbles and Ripley (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S, for the MASS package.
Lumley T (2003) Rmeta version 2.10. R package. http://cran.r-project.org
Thanks again, Hank Stevens
On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Thomas Lumley wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
Dear Martin,
I'd suggest you check the "DESCRIPTION" file and ask the author(s) of the
package (e.g., a package might be related to a tech report which might, now,
be in press, or whatever).
The posted suggestions seem to be that you don't cite the package, you
cite something else vaguely related to it instead. This violates both the
purpose of a citation (a link to the original source) and the principle
(which I hope R users support) that software is publishable in itself, not
just as an appendage to text.
Most citation styles give rules for citing software and rules for citing
URIs. Even when the package author has been completely unhelpful in
constructing a package title you can still put together a perfectly
reasonable citation, eg,
Lumley T (2003) Rmeta version 2.10. R package. http://cran.r-project.org
Some publishers might want a download date, or an explicit statement that
it is software (eg to make searching easier).
-thomas
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