[R] How to reference a package in academical paper

[Uwe Ligges]

On 08.03.2011 13:15, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 11-03-08 1:20 AM, Jim Lemon wrote:
>> On 03/08/2011 08:26 AM, Jorge Ivan Velez wrote:
>>> Hi Jan,
>>>
>>> R> citation('RODBC')
>>
>> Hi all,
>> Upon reading this, I decided to check that this worked in the plotrix
>> package. The first format is correct, but for some reason the BibTeX
>> format isn't:
>>
>> To cite package 'plotrix' in publications use:
>>
>> Lemon, J. (2006) Plotrix: a package in the red light district of R.
>> R-News, 6(4): 8-12.
>>
>> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
>>
>> @Article{,
>> year = {2010},
>> title = {Plotrix: a package in the red light district of R},
>> journal = {R-News},
>> volume = {6},
>> number = {4},
>> pages = {8-12},
>> author = {{Lemon} and {J}},
>> }
>>
>> There is no mention of 2010 in the CITATION file, but I am suspicious of
>> the "meta$date" in the file. Perhaps this will alert whoever attends to
>> this function that something is not quite right.
>
> "meta$date" is in the source file (in inst/CITATION). You could change
> it to 2006 manually.
>
> I suspect if that file was automatically produced it is trying to
> reproduce the date of the current version of the package, for packages
> that don't have an associated article.

Jim, please also correct your entry for the author field.

Best,
Uwe


> Duncan Murdoch
>
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