On 11/3/2010 10:42 AM, John Fox wrote:
Hi Michael,
FWIW, I've added a CITATION file to the car package on R-Forge.
When I composed a CITATION file for the heplots package, I had to root
around in R/library to find something to
use as a template. The main reason for doing this was to have
citation("heplots") also provide a reference to
the theory paper on which this was based, and which should also be cited
by users of the package.
"Writing R Extensions", 1.10 gives a simple example of a CITATION
file, but even this is somewhat daunting for a
package author, and thus is generally ignored.
This would all be easier, and could evolve over time if there was a
function, e.g., prompt.citation(package)
in utils that would write a basic CITATION file from a package
DESCRIPTION, that a package author could
easily edit and then include in the package.
I can imagine it working something like:
> prompt.citation("fubar")
A CITATION file for the fubar package was automatically generated from
the package DESCRIPTION
file. Please edit this file and move it to the appropriate directory,
inst/ in the package tree.
Warning: no Date: field provided in the package DESCRIPTION
Warning: Authors: field does not appear to be a list of names joined
with 'and'
Providing something like this would obviate my suggestions to impose
restrictions on DESCRIPTION
files, and seems more in line with the way R packages and documentation
have developed.
-Michael
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