[R] R-etiquette

[Liaw, Andy]

I'd thank them in the acknowledgement section.  I think some (most?) journal
will allow such a section, and most people use that to thank their research
funding sources and/or collaborators who had not made the list of authors.

Andy

> From: 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 acknowledgement!
> 
> 
> 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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