[Bioc-devel] CITATION on the Bioc package landing page?

[Martin Morgan]

On 04/24/2014 01:51 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> Agreed. Would be nice if the build system could detect changes to CITATION
> and update the web page accordingly. Must already happen for DESCRIPTION.

This will be implemented (over the next several weeks).

Martin

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Vincent Carey
> <stvjc at channing.harvard.edu>wrote:
>
>> +1.  this will be a good motivation for maintainers to get the CITATION
>> entry right.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Wolfgang Huber <whuber at embl.de> wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder whether the software that makes the package landing pages (e.g.:
>>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/minfi.html ) could be
>>> tweaked to display the actual citation suggested in a package CITATION
>> file.
>>>
>>> Right now, it says 'To cite this package in a publication, start R and
>>> enter: citation("minfi")'. Which is already a good start, but requires
>> the
>>> reader to have an R session available, install the package, and type
>> these
>>> words. Things that could be easily automated, and where there is no
>> obvious
>>> benefit from having the user do these computations, as their result is
>>> anyway predictable.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>          Wolfgang
>>>
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