The data sets should be documented...
library(MASS)
?cats
and then the source should tell you how to site it
and specifically
?airquality
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:03 AM, dxc13 <dxc13 at health.state.ny.us>
wrote:>
> Hi,
>
> As part of a project I am doing, I am using the "airquality" data
set that
> comes built into R as a means of showing an example of how my analysis will
> be carried out. I know that citation("package") will produce a
citation for
> any R package, but is there a proper way to cite this data set?
>
> Thanks,
> ~D
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