[R] R-etiquette
Frank E Harrell Jr
f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Sun Jan 9 16:29:49 CET 2005
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 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.
>
I keep learning - thanks Brian. I will add CITATION files in the parent
directory of my packages. The defaults generated from
citation('packagename') for them are not bad. -Frank
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