[R] HOW to provide a CITATION file?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Spencer Graves wrote:

>     "Writing R Extensions" is no longer available via "help.start()", at 
> least not in the standard Windows install since R 2.7.2.  If there is a way 
> to get it to work again like it used to, I'd like to know.  The only way I

Are you getting the search page?  Hit the 'Up' arrow icon.
Or use help.search(searchEngine=TRUE) .

Why have you (not anyone else) reported this over two releases?

> know to get it is to go to "www.r-project.org" -> Manuals -> "Writing R 
> Extensions".
>     From there, if I want to make a local copy, I must avoid the obvious 
> File -> "Save Page As", because that gives me HTML.  Instead, there is a 
> "Save a copy" button in the upper left of the subwindow containing 
> "R-exts.pdf", which I must press to get that particular document.
>     Best Wishes,
>     Spencer
>
> Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>> See 'Writing R Extensions' via help.start() and then search for CITATION.
>> 
>> My $.02 /Henrik
>> 
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Charles Annis, P.E.
>> <Charles.Annis at statisticalengineering.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Greetings, R-ians:
>>> 
>>> I am sure I am missing something obvious.
>>> 
>>> How do I provide a CITATION file for my home-brew package, so that it will
>>> be packaged using
>>> 
>>> R CMD build --binary myPackage?
>>> 
>>> I have placed a CITATION file in the myPackage directory along with the
>>> DESCRIPTION file, but it is ignored.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your guidance.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Charles Annis, P.E.
>>> 
>>> Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
>>> phone: 561-352-9699
>>> eFax:  614-455-3265
>>> http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
>>> 
>>> 
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