It's not clear to me why a journal publication is necessary (although I guess it couldn't hurt). What do you cite when you use SAS? Or Stata?
-roger Gordon K Smyth wrote: > This is just a note that R would get a lot more citations if > the recommended citation was an article in a recognised > journal or from a recognised publisher. > > I use R in work leading to publications often, and I strongly > want to give the R core team credit for their work. However I > find that I can't persuade my biological collaborators to > include the current R citation (below) in their reference > lists, because it is not an article in a recognised journal > nor from a recognised publisher. I can cite the 1996 paper by > Ihaka and Gentleman, and sometimes this what I do, but I'd > really like to give credit to the other R core members as > well, for example the CRAN people and those involved in the > Windows version. > > I know this is more work for the R team, like everything else, > but an article on the story of R since the creation of the > core team would be really nice to see. > > >> citation() > > > To cite R in publications use: > > R Development Core Team (2005). R: A language and environment > for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical > Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL > http://www.R-project.org. > > > Gordon > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
