Very good point about the referencing.
I wonder if this is happening to users of Stata or SAS as well?
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: marc_schwartz at me.com
> Sent: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:24:13 -0500
> To: bgunter.4567 at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [R] 'R' Software Output Plagiarism
>
> Hi,
>
> With the usual caveat that I Am Not A Lawyer....and that I am not
> speaking on behalf of any organization...
>
> My guess is that they are claiming that the output of R, simply being
> copied and pasted verbatim into your thesis constitutes the use of
> copyrighted output from the software.
>
> It is not clear to me that R's output is copyrighted by the R
Foundation
> (or by other parties for CRAN packages), albeit, the source code
> underlying R is, along with other copyright owner's as apropos. There
is
> some caselaw to support the notion that the output alone is not protected
> in a similar manner, but that may be country specific.
>
> Did you provide any credit to R (see the output of citation() ) in your
> thesis and indicate that your analyses were performed using R?
>
> If R is uncredited, I could see them raising the issue.
>
> You might check with your institution's legal/policy folks to see if
> there is any guidance provided for students regarding the crediting of
> software used in this manner, especially if that guidance is at no cost
> to you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>
>> On Sep 22, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at
gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 1. It is highly unlikely that we could be of help (unless someone else
>> has experienced this and knows what happened). You will have to
>> contact the Urkund people and ask them why their algorithms raised the
>> flags.
>>
>> 2. But of course, the regression methodology is not "your
own" -- it's
>> just a standard tool that you used in your work, which is entirely
>> legitimate of course.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bert
>>
>>
>> Bert Gunter
>>
>> "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And
knowledge
>> is certainly not wisdom."
>> -- Clifford Stoll
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:27 AM, BARRETT, Oliver
>> <oliver.barrett at skema.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear 'R' community support,
>>>
>>>
>>> I am a student at Skema business school and I have recently
submitted
>>> my MSc thesis/dissertation. This has been passed on to an external
>>> plagiarism service provider, Urkund, who have scanned my document
and
>>> returned a plagiarism report to my professor having detected 32%
>>> plagiarism.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have contacted Urkund regarding this issue having committed no
such
>>> plagiarism and they have told me that all the plagiarism detected
in my
>>> document comes from the last 25% which consists only of 'R'
regressions
>>> like the one I have pasted below:
>>>
>>> lm(formula = Prague50 ~ Fed + Fed.t.1. + Fed.t.2. + Fed.t.3. +
>>> Fed.t.4., data = OLS_CAR, x = TRUE)
>>>
>>> Residuals:
>>> Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
>>> -0.154587 -0.015961 0.001429 0.017196 0.110907
>>>
>>> Coefficients:
>>> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
>>> (Intercept) -0.001630 0.001763 -0.925 0.3559
>>> Fed -0.121595 0.165359 -0.735 0.4627
>>> Fed.t.1. 0.344014 0.140979 2.440 0.0153 *
>>> Fed.t.2. 0.026529 0.143648 0.185 0.8536
>>> Fed.t.3. 0.622357 0.142021 4.382 1.62e-05 ***
>>> Fed.t.4. 0.291985 0.158914 1.837 0.0671 .
>>> ---
>>> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*'
0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
>>>
>>> Residual standard error: 0.0293 on 304 degrees of freedom
>>> (20 observations deleted due to missingness)
>>> Multiple R-squared: 0.08629, Adjusted R-squared: 0.07126
>>> F-statistic: 5.742 on 5 and 304 DF, p-value: 4.422e-05
>>>
>>> I have produced all of these regressions myself and pasted them
>>> directly from the 'R' software package. My regression
methodology is
>>> entirely my own along with the sourcing and preperation of the data
>>> used to produce these statistics.
>>>
>>> I would be very grateful if you could provide my with some clarity
as
>>> to why this output from 'R' is reading as plagiarism.
>>>
>>> I would like to thank you in advance,
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Oliver Barrett
>>> (+44) 7341 834 217
>>>
>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>>
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