[R-sig-Geo] Links to Zika virus paper

[Roman Luštrik]

Bob opens up an interesting topic, perhaps not really fit for this mailing
list, of which packages to cite. Most packages load dependencies. Should
these dependencies be cited? How do you handle this issue in citing
packages?

Cheers,
Roman

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:29 PM, boB Rudis <bob at rudis.net> wrote:

> Agreed it was great to see "Each of the 300 individual models was
> fitted using the gbm.step subroutine in the dismo package in the R
> statistical programming environment (Elith et al. 2008)" in there and
> also agreed that the following should have made it into the citations
> (assuming only library(dismo) was done which is a terrible assumption
> :-). Many thanks to Roger, Edzer (et al) as well. Critial,
> foundational work which made this paper possible.
>
> @Manual{R-base,
>   title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing},
>   author = {{R Core Team}},
>   organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
>   address = {Vienna, Austria},
>   year = {2016},
>   url = {https://www.R-project.org/},
> }
> @Manual{R-dismo,
>   title = {dismo: Species Distribution Modeling},
>   author = {Robert J. Hijmans and Steven Phillips and John Leathwick
> and Jane Elith},
>   year = {2015},
>   note = {R package version 1.0-12},
>   url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dismo},
> }
> @Manual{R-raster,
>   title = {raster: Geographic Data Analysis and Modeling},
>   author = {Robert J. Hijmans},
>   year = {2015},
>   note = {R package version 2.5-2},
>   url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=raster},
> }
> @Manual{R-sp,
>   title = {sp: Classes and Methods for Spatial Data},
>   author = {Edzer Pebesma and Roger Bivand},
>   year = {2015},
>   note = {R package version 1.2-1},
>   url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sp},
> }
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Barry Rowlingson
> <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>
> wrote:
> >> Why we do what we do:
> >>
> >> Congratulations to Robert Hijmans and others maintaining the dismo
> package:
> >>
> >> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dismo/index.html
> >>
> >> which is the computational basis for:
> >>
> >> http://elifesciences.org/content/5/e15272v1
> >>
> >> and reported on in:
> >>
> >> http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36090650
> >
> >  Great stuff, but sadly I don't see the either R itself or the dismo
> > package cited in the journal article - the one mention of dismo gets a
> > reference to a paper (Elith, J., J. R. Leathwick & T. Hastie (2008)  A
> > working guide to boosted regression trees. J Anim Ecol, 77, 802-13)
> > and nothing else.
> >
> >   *sigh*
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > R-sig-Geo mailing list
> > R-sig-Geo at r-project.org
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
>
> _______________________________________________
> R-sig-Geo mailing list
> R-sig-Geo at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
>



-- 
In God we trust, all others bring data.

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]