Prof Brian Ripley <ripley <at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes: : : On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Anne wrote: : : > I'm about to present a report (for internal use of governmental agency). : > I used extensively R , contibuted packages, as well as communications on : > the R-list : > : > As well as citing R, I would like to know how to cite the contributed : > packages (it is not so easy, as some have been used exensively, other : > marginally, some are called from another package and some were not used : > as softwares but gave me insight of how to proceed), as well as thank : > the persons who generously responded to my demands on the list... : > : > Is there an established way of doing that? : : See the citation() function, which works for packages too and a few : authors have taken advantage of the means of customizing it. :
Could someone point out a few packages that have a CITATION file to use as examples. In a search I did I only found one. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html