I'd thank them in the acknowledgement section. I think some (most?) journal will allow such a section, and most people use that to thank their research funding sources and/or collaborators who had not made the list of authors.
Andy > From: Anne > > > 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 acknowledgement! > > > 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 > > ______________________________________________ [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
