[R] R-etiquette

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:

> 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

You need to add them to the inst directory of source packages: see ONEWS.

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