[R] R-etiquette

[Anne]

well, all  these responses address part of my question!
- what about citing people who helped with comments/ suggestions even code
on the list? I do think they deserve aknowledgement!


Thanks

Anne



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Romain François" <francoisromain at free.fr>
To: "Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at myway.com>; "RHELP"
<R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [R] R-etiquette


> hello,
>
> package MASS has one that looks just like that :
>
> citHeader("To cite the VR bundle (MASS, class, nnet, spatial) in
> publications use:")
>
> citEntry(entry="Book",
>          title = "Modern Applied Statistics with S",
>          author = personList(as.person("W. N. Venables"),
>                              as.person("B. D. Ripley")),
> publisher = "Springer",
>          edition = "Fourth",
>          address      = "New York",
>          year         = 2002,
>          note         = "ISBN 0-387-95457-0",
>          url          = "http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4",
>
>          textVersion =
>          paste("Venables, W. N. & Ripley, B. D. (2002)",
>                "Modern Applied Statistics with S.",
>                "Fourth Edition. Springer, New York. ISBN 0-387-95457-0")
> )
>
> or package base :
>
> citHeader("To cite R in publications use:")
>
> citEntry(entry="Manual",
>          title = "R: A language and environment for statistical
computing",
>          author = person(last="R Development Core Team"),
>          organization = "R Foundation for Statistical Computing",
>          address      = "Vienna, Austria",
>          year         = version$year,
>          note         = "{ISBN} 3-900051-07-0",
>          url          = "http://www.R-project.org",
>
>          textVersion =
>          paste("R Development Core Team (", version$year, "). ",
>                "R: A language and environment for statistical computing.
",
>                "R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
",
>                "ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R-project.org.",
>                sep="")
>          )
>
> citFooter("We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating R,",
>           "please cite it when using it for data analysis.",
>   "See also", sQuote("citation(\"pkgname\")"),
>   "for citing R packages.")
>
>
> That's all I found. Hope this helps.
>
> Romain.
>
>
> Gabor Grothendieck a écrit :
>
> >Prof Brian Ripley <ripley <at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> >
> >:
> >: 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.
> >:
> >
> >
> >Could someone point out a few packages that have a CITATION file
> >to use as examples.  In a search I did I only found one.
> >
> >
> -- 
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