Dear Marc, Thank you, exactly what I needed!
Best, Ivan -- Dr. Ivan Calandra TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution Schloss Monrepos 56567 Neuwied, Germany +49 (0) 2631 9772-243 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra On 16/01/2020 18:31, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> On Jan 16, 2020, at 12:03 PM, Ivan Calandra <calan...@rgzm.de> wrote: >> >> Dear useRs, >> >> I want to cite the packages I have used in my analyses for a paper. I >> have recorded through sessionInfo() which packages and which versions I >> used for a given analysis. >> >> I know how to cite a package using the citation() function, but the >> problem is that in the meantime, I have updated these packages. >> citation() returns the citation for the actual installed version. And >> citations change over time (e.g. with more people getting involved in >> the development and maintenance of a package). >> >> Now the question is how do I find out how to cite a given, not actual >> version of a package? >> >> Thank you in advance. >> Best regards, >> Ivan > > Hi, > > If you know the package versions that you wish to cite and they are no longer > installed locally, you can use the content of either the CITATION file for > the package, if included, or the content of the DESCRIPTION file, for the > relevant version of the package. > > The easiest way to do this may be to download the source tarball for the > package from the CRAN archive for the package or wherever the package is > located, if not on CRAN. > > An alternative, if the package is stored in an online VC system (e.g. > Github), is that you may be able to read the relevant file from that system > for the version of the file that is tagged appropriately. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
