I want to put the correct information into the "author" field of the DESCRIPTION file for my bbmle package, which is a modified and extended version of the mle code in the stats4 package. If I put only myself as author I feel like I'm ignoring the contribution of R-Core (and I think Peter Dalgaard in particular) in writing the original code. If I add "R Development Core Team" to the author list I feel I am suggesting that they might be responsible for my changes. Neither seems entirely appropriate. Suggestions? Ben Bolker PS this is my current DESCRIPTION file: Package: bbmle Title: Maximum likelihood estimation Version: 0.7 Date: 2007/05/16 Author: Ben Bolker Maintainer: Ben Bolker <bolker at zoo.ufl.edu> Depends: R (>= 2.0.0), methods, stats, graphics Description: Methods and functions for fitting maximum likelihood models in R. This package modifies and extends the mle classes in the stats4 library, written by the R Development Core Team. License: GPL -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 254 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/attachments/20070516/4ac0978d/attachment.bin
This is how one package handled it:> packageDescription("RSVGTipsDevice")$Author[1] "Tony Plate <tplate at acm.org>, based on RSVGDevice by T Jake\nLuciani <jakeluciani at yahoo.com>" On 5/16/07, Ben Bolker <bolker at zoo.ufl.edu> wrote:> > I want to put the correct information into the "author" field > of the DESCRIPTION file for my bbmle package, which is a modified > and extended version of the mle code in the stats4 package. > > If I put only myself as author I feel like I'm ignoring the > contribution of R-Core (and I think Peter Dalgaard in particular) > in writing the original code. If I add "R Development Core > Team" to the author list I feel I am suggesting that they > might be responsible for my changes. Neither seems entirely > appropriate. > > Suggestions? > > Ben Bolker > > PS this is my current DESCRIPTION file: > > Package: bbmle > Title: Maximum likelihood estimation > Version: 0.7 > Date: 2007/05/16 > Author: Ben Bolker > Maintainer: Ben Bolker <bolker at zoo.ufl.edu> > Depends: R (>= 2.0.0), methods, stats, graphics > Description: Methods and functions for fitting maximum likelihood models > in R. This package modifies and extends the mle classes in the stats4 > library, written by the R Development Core Team. > License: GPL > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > >
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Bolker <bolker at zoo.ufl.edu> >>>>> on Wed, 16 May 2007 15:01:31 -0400 writes:Ben> I want to put the correct information into the Ben> "author" field of the DESCRIPTION file for my bbmle Ben> package, which is a modified and extended version of Ben> the mle code in the stats4 package. Ben> If I put only myself as author I feel like I'm Ben> ignoring the contribution of R-Core (and I think Peter Ben> Dalgaard in particular) in writing the original code. Ben> If I add "R Development Core Team" to the author list I Ben> feel I am suggesting that they might be responsible for Ben> my changes. Neither seems entirely appropriate. Ben> Suggestions? I think Gabor's is fine. {maybe don't give the e-mail address of the R core team; we already get e-mails we should not}. Ben> Ben Bolker Ben> PS this is my current DESCRIPTION file: Ben> Package: bbmle Ben> Title: Maximum likelihood estimation Ben> Version: 0.7 Ben> Date: 2007/05/16 Ben> Author: Ben Bolker Ben> Maintainer: Ben Bolker <bolker at zoo.ufl.edu> Ben> Depends: R (>= 2.0.0), methods, stats, graphics Ben> Description: Methods and functions for fitting maximum likelihood models Ben> in R. This package modifies and extends the mle classes in the stats4 Ben> library, written by the R Development Core Team. ^^^^^^^ \\\\\\\\ please! How can I ever get old and wise in quietness when even you ... ;-) --> fortune("library.*Maechler") Regards, Martin