Dear Contributors, Some of us that use the end product of R could pay for your services if asked to do so. While all your help is free, I am a little disturbed that there is no archive or repository where publications employing R tools are deposited for those interested in the usefulness of R. I have, with your great assistance, produced 4 papers this year and more are under way. While I have never failed to cite R in the papers, I feel like always saying additional thank you for your invaluable but free time. Many, many, many thanks to all of you. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Okike_2019_ApJ_882_15-1.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1393818 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20190828/da51a5ef/attachment-0001.pdf>
On 8/28/19 6:13 AM, Ogbos Okike wrote:> Dear Contributors, > Some of us that use the end product of R could pay for your services > if asked to do so. While all your help is free, I am a little > disturbed that there is no archive or repository where publications > employing R tools are deposited for those interested in the > usefulness of R.CRAN would qualify as an "archive or repository where publications employing R tools are deposited for those interested in the usefulness of R." There are also efforts to provide There is a focused search site called Rseek and there is a suite of CRAN Task Views. -- David.> I have, with your great assistance, produced 4 papers this year and > more are under way. While I have never failed to cite R in the papers, > I feel like always saying additional thank you for your invaluable but > free time. > > Many, many, many thanks to all of you. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> On 29 Aug 2019, at 03:32, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote: > > > On 8/28/19 6:13 AM, Ogbos Okike wrote: >> Dear Contributors, >> Some of us that use the end product of R could pay for your services >> if asked to do so. While all your help is free, I am a little >> disturbed that there is no archive or repository where publications >> employing R tools are deposited for those interested in the >> usefulness of R. > > CRAN would qualify as an "archive or repository where publicationsI think you are misunderstanding the OP. Ogbos is, as I understand, looking for a repository for publications using R (as in scientific publications) and not that much. Correct me if I am wrong, but I am not aware that CRAN hosts a bibliography of publications using R (which would be an interesting thing to have?). Cheers, Rainer> > employing R tools are deposited for those interested in the > usefulness of R." There are also efforts to provide > > There is a focused search site called Rseek and there is a suite of CRAN Task Views. > > > -- > > David. > > >> I have, with your great assistance, produced 4 papers this year and >> more are under way. While I have never failed to cite R in the papers, >> I feel like always saying additional thank you for your invaluable but >> free time. >> >> Many, many, many thanks to all of you. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Z?rich [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Hi R folks, After following this thread, I got curious, and tried to do a Web of Science search to see how many citations of R there are. It's a *mess*. Even limiting it to "R Core Team" as first author, there are so many variations in citation that WoS eventually gave up and told me that I couldn't add any more. Google Scholar gives "Cited by 134011 - All 118 versions." I think trying to create a repository might also be a mess! But it's clear from this attempt that it's harder than it should be to consistently and clearly cite R, even with the handy citation() function, or there wouldn't be such a mess in WoS. Perhaps it's time to create a DOI for R itself, to help standardize the mess. (If there is a DOI, it doesn't show up in citation().) Versioning would be a slight pain, but according to Zenodo at least, they maintain a DOI for each version, and a master DOI. Also, of course, make sure your students and colleagues cite R and the R packages they use! The authors should be properly credited, and it makes it possible for interested people to see where and how the software is used. And if you want to support R financially, there are worse things to do than donate to the R Foundation. https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ Sarah --- Sarah Goslee http://www.numberwright.com