well, all these responses address part of my question! - what about citing people who helped with comments/ suggestions even code on the list? I do think they deserve aknowledgement!
Thanks Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Romain Fran�ois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "RHELP" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [R] R-etiquette > hello, > > package MASS has one that looks just like that : > > citHeader("To cite the VR bundle (MASS, class, nnet, spatial) in > publications use:") > > citEntry(entry="Book", > title = "Modern Applied Statistics with S", > author = personList(as.person("W. N. Venables"), > as.person("B. D. Ripley")), > publisher = "Springer", > edition = "Fourth", > address = "New York", > year = 2002, > note = "ISBN 0-387-95457-0", > url = "http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4";, > > textVersion = > paste("Venables, W. N. & Ripley, B. D. (2002)", > "Modern Applied Statistics with S.", > "Fourth Edition. Springer, New York. ISBN 0-387-95457-0") > ) > > or package base : > > citHeader("To cite R in publications use:") > > citEntry(entry="Manual", > title = "R: A language and environment for statistical computing", > author = person(last="R Development Core Team"), > organization = "R Foundation for Statistical Computing", > address = "Vienna, Austria", > year = version$year, > note = "{ISBN} 3-900051-07-0", > url = "http://www.R-project.org";, > > textVersion = > paste("R Development Core Team (", version$year, "). ", > "R: A language and environment for statistical computing. ", > "R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ", > "ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R-project.org.";, > sep="") > ) > > citFooter("We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating R,", > "please cite it when using it for data analysis.", > "See also", sQuote("citation(\"pkgname\")"), > "for citing R packages.") > > > That's all I found. Hope this helps. > > Romain. > > > Gabor Grothendieck a �crit : > > >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. > > > > > -- > Romain FRANCOIS : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > page web : http://addictedtor.free.fr/ (en construction) > 06 18 39 14 69 / 01 46 80 65 60 > _______________________________________________________ > Etudiant en 3eme ann�e > Institut de Statistique de l'Universit� de Paris (ISUP) > Fili�re Industrie et Services > http://www.isup.cicrp.jussieu.fr/ > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
