[R-pkg-devel] Including references in the DESCRIPTION file

[Eugenio López Cortegano]

Hi Rafa,

Thank you very much for the feedback, appreciate the help, it is very clear
that way!

Best,
Eugenio

On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 at 14:53, Rafael Ayala Hernandez <
Rafael.AyalaHernandez using oist.jp> wrote:

> Hi Eugenio,
>
> I was recently asked a similar addition from the CRAN team for my package
> asteRisk (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/asteRisk/index.html)
>
> I just added some of the main references, since including all references
> would have made the Description field too long.
> I was not asked this previously for other packages, so it might be it only
> applies for lesser known fields, or it might be a new policy
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Rafa
>
> > El 29 abr 2021, a las 15:45, Eugenio López Cortegano <
> elcortegano using gmail.com> escribió:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been asked by a CRAN member to add references for methods used in
> > the package, in the description file of DESCRIPTION.
> >
> > The format to do so seems to be:
> >
> > authors (year) <doi...>
> > authors (year) <arXiv:...>
> > authors (year, ISBN:...)
> >
> > However, I feel a bit unconfident about how to properly include these
> > changes, since I haven't find any other examples providing this
> information
> > in DESCRIPTION, and what I have read in 'Writing R extensions' is that
> the
> > Description field should be just one paragraph. Including these
> references
> > at the end of that field seems to break that rule to me.
> >
> > Does anyone have experience with this or could provide a little more
> advice
> > about how to implement these changes?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Eugenio
> >
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