Dear Martin, I'd suggest you check the "DESCRIPTION" file and ask the author(s) of the package (e.g., a package might be related to a tech report which might, now, be in press, or whatever). Best, R. On Monday 09 February 2004 15:21, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:> How do I cite a package (not R itself - I know how to do that)? Any > thoughts or links? > Many thanks in advance? > Hank Stevens > > Dr. Martin Henry H. Stevens, Assistant Professor > 338 Pearson Hall > Botany Department > Miami University > Oxford, OH 45056 > > Office: (513) 529-4206 > Lab: (513) 529-4262 > FAX: (513) 529-4243 > http://www.cas.muohio.edu/botany/bot/henry.html > http://www.muohio.edu/ecology/ > http://www.muohio.edu/botany/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html-- Ram?n D?az-Uriarte Bioinformatics Unit Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncol?gicas (CNIO) (Spanish National Cancer Center) Melchor Fern?ndez Almagro, 3 28029 Madrid (Spain) Fax: +-34-91-224-6972 Phone: +-34-91-224-6900 http://bioinfo.cnio.es/~rdiaz PGP KeyID: 0xE89B3462 (http://bioinfo.cnio.es/~rdiaz/0xE89B3462.asc)
How do I cite a package (not R itself - I know how to do that)? Any thoughts or links? Many thanks in advance? Hank Stevens Dr. Martin Henry H. Stevens, Assistant Professor 338 Pearson Hall Botany Department Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 Office: (513) 529-4206 Lab: (513) 529-4262 FAX: (513) 529-4243 http://www.cas.muohio.edu/botany/bot/henry.html http://www.muohio.edu/ecology/ http://www.muohio.edu/botany/
Hi As far I'm concern the package author should tell you that. Some packages have an article about them in the R-NEWS and this is a possible way to cite them. Otherwise we are left with the reference to the contributed packages session of the CRAN web-site. R has the citation() function and inspired by this we create the functions cite.geoR() and cite.geoRglm() the packages geoR and geoRglm. Would it be an idea having some global standard, including this a a requirement for the packages (?) P.J. On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:> How do I cite a package (not R itself - I know how to do that)? Any > thoughts or links? > Many thanks in advance? > Hank Stevens > > Dr. Martin Henry H. Stevens, Assistant Professor > 338 Pearson Hall > Botany Department > Miami University > Oxford, OH 45056 > > Office: (513) 529-4206 > Lab: (513) 529-4262 > FAX: (513) 529-4243 > http://www.cas.muohio.edu/botany/bot/henry.html > http://www.muohio.edu/ecology/ > http://www.muohio.edu/botany/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr Departamento de Estat?stica Universidade Federal do Paran? Caixa Postal 19.081 CEP 81.531-990 Curitiba, PR - Brasil Tel: (+55) 41 361 3471 Fax: (+55) 41 361 3141 e-mail: pj at est.ufpr.br http://www.est.ufpr.br/~paulojus
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 16:21, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:> How do I cite a package (not R itself - I know how to do that)? Any > thoughts or links? > Many thanks in advance?I think it is the duty of a package author to write a citable paper, if he thinks that such is needed. It could be useful to have this kind of information easily available in the package, so that you do not have to ask the authors how to cite their package. A natural looking place for this kind of information is the package DESCRIPTION. However, there is no standard entry for citation there. Now it seems that some packages have a hint to citing (for instance, MASS: "Functions and datasets to support Venables and Ripley, 'Modern Applied Statistics with S' (4th edition)"), while some book-backed packages have no pointers to the book (nlme, for instance). However, all CRAN packages have a pdf file of the package documentation in CRAN. If citing URL is allowed in the journal, this is a place to point. cheers, jari oksanen -- J.Oksanen, Oulu, Finland. "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California." E. Dijkstra