That sound all very reasonable, so unless there are any protests I will make the suggested changes on one of the next days.
Thanks a lot, Fritz >>>>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:05:33 -0500, >>>>> White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC (WCEWD) wrote: > My subject line refers to a thread from June 2005 where I found > explanations from Uwe Ligges and Friedrich Leisch as to what is intended > by the R citation recommended within the software. Forgive me if I > missed some points within the thread but when I found myself circling > through messages I had already read, I stopped trying to follow it. I > understand and mostly agree with how the R citation is currently > suggested, though I would like to make two recommendations: > (1) Include the version number in the citation. > When editors realize I'm citing software, they want to know which > version I am citing. Since the document we are citing (called the > 'Reference Index' under the 'Manuals' link) actually includes the > version number anyway, I recommend that the R Development Core Team > expand the reference to include that information. A suggested format > follows: > R Development Core Team (2005). R: A language and environment for > statistical computing, reference index version 2.2.1. R Foundation for > Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL > http://www.R-project.org. > (2) Help editors find the cited document by (a) explicitly providing a > citation link on the main web page for the R-project and (b) referencing > the cited document on the web site by the name under which it is cited. > Imagine the hapless editor following the R-project link expecting to > find a document called "R: A language and environment for statistical > computing." They then Google the ISBN number and find it referring to > multiple versions of the software. <grin> With regard to the citation > link, I recommend that it be called 'Citing R' and that it be placed on > the left side of the web page under the header called 'About R.' With > regard to the text on the page linked to 'Citing R,' I suggest something > like the following: > The R Development Core Team recommends the following citation for the > current major release of R: > R Development Core Team (2005). R: A language and environment for > statistical computing, reference index version 2.x.x. R Foundation for > Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL > http://www.R-project.org. > With regard to the version number, 2 is the major release, the first x > is the minor release, and the last x is the patch level. The ISBN number > covers both the software and the tightly bundled reference index. This > number changes with each major release of R. > ... > Thanks for your time. > Chuck > Charles E. White, Senior Biostatistician, MS > Walter Reed Army Institute of Research > 503 Robert Grant Ave., Room 1w102 > Silver Spring, MD 20910-1557 > 301 319-9781 > Personal/Professional Site: > http://users.starpower.net/cwhite571/professional/ ______________________________________________ [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
