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

[Grün, Bettina]

Eugenio,

the CRAN submission checklist available at

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/submission_checklist.html

contains some information on how to write a suitable Description entry in 
the DESCRIPTION file for CRAN packages.

This contains:

o Make the Description as informative as possible for potential new users 
of your package. If in doubt, make the Description longer rather than 
shorter, but try to avoid redundancies such as repetitions of the package name.

as well as

o Relevant citations should be included in the description. These should be 
in author-year style, preferably followed by an identifier such as DOI, 
arXiv id, or ISBN for published materials.

Best,
Bettina

On 4/29/21 3:45 PM, Eugenio López Cortegano wrote:
> 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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