I was just about to say that this should be a nice carrot for authors to
start improving their citations...


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Vincent Carey <stvjc@channing.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> Very nice.  We'll give it a couple of weeks and then announce more
> broadly?  I'll start improving
> my package citations shortly.
>
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan@fhcrc.org> wrote:
>
>> On 04/25/2014 01:46 PM, Martin Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>
>> Dan has implemented this, see e.g.,
>>
>>   1. http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/
>> GenomicRanges.html
>>   2. http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/limma.html
>>   3. http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/GenomeInfoDb.html
>>
>> The citations are derived from a CITATION file if it exists (examples 1
>> and 2) or auto-generated from the DESCRIPTION file (example 3), using the
>> equivalent of print(citation("GenomicRanges"), style="html") with some
>> post-processing to work around bugs in print.bibentry related to parsing
>> strings with embedded escape sequences '%' (example 1). print.bibentry
>> prints the citation, but not for instance citHeader (in example 2).
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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