Hi all I was reading a paper recently in which I was surprised to see an R package of mine obviously used, without acknowledgement. Indeed, R itself was used without any acknowledgment. So I contact the author about these issues, who said (in part):
Regarding the R packages, I used the "tweedie" and "statmod" for my analyses as you pointed out. The referee of this paper advised me that it is not needed to cite "R" because it is a kind of free software different from the commercial package such as SAS. What is the logic behind this? What can be done about it? That makes me quite angry... P. Peter Dunn Biostatistician School of Health and Sport Science Faculty of Science, Health and Education University of the Sunshine Coast Tel: +61 7 5456 5085 Fax: +61 7 5430 2896 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.usc.edu.au Peter Dunn Biostatistician School of Health and Sport Science Faculty of Science, Health and Education University of the Sunshine Coast Tel: +61 7 5456 5085 Fax: +61 7 5430 2896 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.usc.edu.au CRICOS Provider Number: 01595D This communication is intended for the recipient only and should not be forwarded, distributed or otherwise read by others without express permission. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily those of the University of the Sunshine Coast. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ______________________________________________ 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.
