[Bioc-devel] The 'citation()' function

Jeff Gentry jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu
Tue Sep 21 21:57:05 CEST 2004


I was recently pointed to the citation() function being enabled for
packages now.  This is a good thing to get setup for your packages,
although by default it will extract information from your DESCRIPTION
file.  Package maintainers should all run citation("<pkgName>") and see if
they like the default output.  If you'd like to change it, create a file
named 'CITATION' - an example of the proper format can be found in
R/src/library/base/inst/CITATION.  The man page for citation also has some
info that might be useful.

Thanks
-J



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