[R] citing a package?
How do I cite a package (not R itself - I know how to do that)? Any thoughts or links? Many thanks in advance? Hank Stevens Dr. Martin Henry H. Stevens, Assistant Professor 338 Pearson Hall Botany Department Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 Office: (513) 529-4206 Lab: (513) 529-4262 FAX: (513) 529-4243 http://www.cas.muohio.edu/botany/bot/henry.html http://www.muohio.edu/ecology/ http://www.muohio.edu/botany/ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] citing a package?
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 16:21, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote: How do I cite a package (not R itself - I know how to do that)? Any thoughts or links? Many thanks in advance? I think it is the duty of a package author to write a citable paper, if he thinks that such is needed. It could be useful to have this kind of information easily available in the package, so that you do not have to ask the authors how to cite their package. A natural looking place for this kind of information is the package DESCRIPTION. However, there is no standard entry for citation there. Now it seems that some packages have a hint to citing (for instance, MASS: Functions and datasets to support Venables and Ripley, 'Modern Applied Statistics with S' (4th edition)), while some book-backed packages have no pointers to the book (nlme, for instance). However, all CRAN packages have a pdf file of the package documentation in CRAN. If citing URL is allowed in the journal, this is a place to point. cheers, jari oksanen -- J.Oksanen, Oulu, Finland. Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. E. Dijkstra __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] citing a package?
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). Best, R. On Monday 09 February 2004 15:21, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote: How do I cite a package (not R itself - I know how to do that)? Any thoughts or links? Many thanks in advance? Hank Stevens Dr. Martin Henry H. Stevens, Assistant Professor 338 Pearson Hall Botany Department Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 Office: (513) 529-4206 Lab: (513) 529-4262 FAX: (513) 529-4243 http://www.cas.muohio.edu/botany/bot/henry.html http://www.muohio.edu/ecology/ http://www.muohio.edu/botany/ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Bioinformatics Unit Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO) (Spanish National Cancer Center) Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3 28029 Madrid (Spain) Fax: +-34-91-224-6972 Phone: +-34-91-224-6900 http://bioinfo.cnio.es/~rdiaz PGP KeyID: 0xE89B3462 (http://bioinfo.cnio.es/~rdiaz/0xE89B3462.asc) __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] citing a package?
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 __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] citing a package?
While the idea of writing a citable paper is great and appropriate, I think the word duty is too strong. Competent professionals can still make valuable contributions to the R Project without this kind of external publication. In academia, at least in the US, professors are paid in part to publish. Outside of academia, anyone who wishes to publish has much less support for doing so, and is often actively discouraged by intellectual property clauses in employment contracts that require internal reviews by people with little understanding of how new knowledge is created. We should all be thankful for the contributions made to R by those who can NOT even get credit for it in an annual performance review. Their contributions should be judged on utility to other R users, not on whether it is converted into a separate publication. just my humble opinion. spencer graves Jari Oksanen wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 16:21, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote: How do I cite a package (not R itself - I know how to do that)? Any thoughts or links? Many thanks in advance? I think it is the duty of a package author to write a citable paper, if he thinks that such is needed. It could be useful to have this kind of information easily available in the package, so that you do not have to ask the authors how to cite their package. A natural looking place for this kind of information is the package DESCRIPTION. However, there is no standard entry for citation there. Now it seems that some packages have a hint to citing (for instance, MASS: Functions and datasets to support Venables and Ripley, 'Modern Applied Statistics with S' (4th edition)), while some book-backed packages have no pointers to the book (nlme, for instance). However, all CRAN packages have a pdf file of the package documentation in CRAN. If citing URL is allowed in the journal, this is a place to point. cheers, jari oksanen __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] citing a package?
I faced this problem recently when documenting the AlgDesign package. It contains some stuff the isn't in the literature, so I added a citation statement in the AUTHOR section of each function. Even after the material is published, I think a citation to a working model is quite appropriate. 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 __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Bob Wheeler --- http://www.bobwheeler.com/ ECHIP, Inc. --- Randomness comes in bunches. __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] citing a package?
Thank you to all the contributors to my original post. It has been informative to me, and appears to have provoked a small but important discussion about how we perform our duties in our various capacities as creators, developers and users. I like Thomas' suggestion, eg, Lumley T (2003) Rmeta version 2.10. R package. http://cran.r-project.org 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. 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 Dr. Martin Henry H. Stevens, Assistant Professor 338 Pearson Hall Botany Department Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 Office: (513) 529-4206 Lab: (513) 529-4262 FAX: (513) 529-4243 http://www.cas.muohio.edu/botany/bot/henry.html http://www.muohio.edu/ecology/ http://www.muohio.edu/botany/ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
RE: [R] citing a package?
I had a reviewer request a citation for a package that I had neglected to cite. I followed a similar format to that suggested by Thomas Lumley and also referenced a related book by the package's author. The editor thought it was nifty. My two cents. -Andy __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
