[R] Citing Package Contributing Authors
Achim Zeileis
Achim.Zeileis at uibk.ac.at
Mon Aug 26 22:18:16 CEST 2013
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Charles Determan Jr wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am familiar with the function cite('packageName') which provides the
> output generated from the DESCRIPTION file.
...unless the package provides a CITATION file. Then, citation('pkg')
shows the content of the CITATION. citation('pkg', auto = TRUE) always
shows the auto-generated citation based on the DESCRIPTION.
> In most cases this is sufficient but I was wondering if there are
> contributing authors (in addition to the primary) also listed on the
> CRAN page. Is there a proper way to account for them or are they
> generally not listed?
In recent versions of R, package developers have the possiblity to assign
roles to the persons contributing to an R package (based on the MARC
vocabulary). If this has been done, then citation('pkg', auto = TRUE)
lists all persons with an "author" role but none of the others (e.g.,
contributors, translators, thesis advisors, etc.). See
http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2012-1/RJournal_2012-1_Hornik~et~al.pdf
for details.
If there is neither a CITATION file nor a DESCRIPTION with Authors at R
(using the role vocabulary mentioned above) then it is not quite clear who
exactly should be cited and who not. I think in most cases, it is ok to
omit persons described by "with contributions by..." etc.
Hth,
Z
> Regards,
>
> --
> Charles Determan
> Integrated Biosciences PhD Candidate
> University of Minnesota
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