[R] R-etiquette
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sun Jan 9 16:15:01 CET 2005
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Anne wrote:
> I'm about to present a report (for internal use of governmental agency).
> I used extensively R , contibuted packages, as well as communications on
> the R-list
>
> As well as citing R, I would like to know how to cite the contributed
> packages (it is not so easy, as some have been used exensively, other
> marginally, some are called from another package and some were not used
> as softwares but gave me insight of how to proceed), as well as thank
> the persons who generously responded to my demands on the list...
>
> Is there an established way of doing that?
See the citation() function, which works for packages too and a few
authors have taken advantage of the means of customizing it.
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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