[Rd] R Citation through time

[Gregor Gorjanc]

Friedrich Leisch wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:53:52 +0200,
>>>>>> Gregor Gorjanc (GG) wrote:
> 
>   > Hello!
>   > I keep my local bib file and up to now I had entry
> 
>   >   @Manual{R:2003,
>   >     title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing},
>   >     author = {{R Development Core Team}},
>   >     organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
>   >     address = {Vienna, Austria},
>   >     year = {2005},
>   >     note = {{ISBN} 3-900051-00-3},
>   >     url = {http://www.R-project.org},
>   >   }
> 
>   > With recent versions ISBN changed to 3-900051-07-0.
> 
> It changed with 2.0.0, which is not that recent ...
> 
>   > Now I wonder if there is any canonical way to refer to R without
>   > the need to change R entry over and over. It would probably be the
>   > best just to add new entry for "new version" for R. Now the
>   > question is what is new version or when does ISBN number change?
> 
> The ISBN changes with every major version of R, i.e., it will change
> next when 3.0.0 is released. We are already stretching the ISBN rules
> to the limit (on the no-change-side) with that policy, and the
> reason is exactly to make the reference more stable. But with a major
> release we really need to assign a new ISBN.

Thank you for this clarifications. As indicated ISBN is not changing
very often and I can live with couple of BibTeX entries for R.

Thanks!

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Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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