Thank you for your reply Stephan, I like to be very thorough and make sure all names are attributed so in the case that I check the url of a package and it lists contributing authors that aren't provided with citation() would it be appropriate to cite it like this:
Smith, J. [pr] and Johnson, J. [cr] (2013). Awesome package name. R package version 2.1. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=awesome_package I am just unsure if there is a standard approach for situations such as this whether it is omitting the contributing author, different acronym designation, etc. Regards On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Stephan Kolassa <stephan.kola...@gmx.de>wrote: > Hi, > > it usually is a good idea to look at the output of citation() (which, > however, also often is auto-generated) or at the authors listed in package > vignettes. > > And thanks for citing R package authors. When I review papers, I often > have to remind authors of this... > > Best > Stephan > > > On 26.08.2013 21:56, Charles Determan Jr wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I am familiar with the function cite('packageName') which provides the >> output generated from the DESCRIPTION file. In most cases this is >> sufficient but I was wondering if there are contributing authors (in >> addition to the primary) also listed on the CRAN page. Is there a proper >> way to account for them or are they generally not listed? >> >> Regards, >> >> > -- Charles Determan Integrated Biosciences PhD Candidate University of Minnesota [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
