There's a nice online tool called CiteAs which tries to figure out the proper citation for a given URL. I've recently helped the author to add support for extracting the DOI from Bioconductor package information pages: https://github.com/Impactstory/citeas-api/issues/12
This is a good start, but is suboptimal, since some many packages have actual published articles which should be used as the canonical citation instead of the package's URL. However, I'm not sure how to get this citation information in a structured format short of running R and installing the package, which isn't really an option for a web service like this, which wants to return a result quickly. Does anyone know a good way to access this info? Thanks, Ryan Thompson [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel