Agreed. Would be nice if the build system could detect changes to CITATION
and update the web page accordingly. Must already happen for DESCRIPTION.


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Vincent Carey
<stvjc@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@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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