R devel - Jun 2006 - Wish/suggestion: add output of citation() to package "manuals" (PR#9009)

Dear R core,

influenced by recent panel discussion in Vienna I think that it would be
nice to add package specific output of citation() function to package
reference manuals. I think that apropriate place would be just after
fields from DESCRIPTION file. This will be OK for CRAN, but not for
locally installed packages as there is not reference manual there (at
least on my linux box) - why is this the case? Perhaps output of
citation() could be added to package specific help page i.e. to
mypackage.package.Rd file.

The same could be done with R's manuals. I know that there is an entry
in FAQ on this and that there is a note after launching R, but questions
about apropriate reference on R-help list are quite frequent. Perhaps
this is so due to the habit that one looks into the paper/book/manual
about relevant information for reference.

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Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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>>>>> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:22:42 +0200 (CEST),
>>>>> gregor gorjanc (gg) wrote:
  > Dear R core,
  > influenced by recent panel discussion in Vienna I think that it would be
  > nice to add package specific output of citation() function to package
  > reference manuals. I think that apropriate place would be just after
  > fields from DESCRIPTION file. This will be OK for CRAN, but not for
  > locally installed packages as there is not reference manual there (at
  > least on my linux box) - why is this the case? Perhaps output of
  > citation() could be added to package specific help page i.e. to
  > mypackage.package.Rd file.

Yes, very good idea, I have put it onto my 2do list for 2.4.

Best,
Fritz