On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Kinoko wrote:
Just a few words...
I usually cite softwares, especially if they are opensource (and
encourage everyone to do so).
Of course I would not append references for rkward or kile to my bib
(neither word or excel).
While the response of the researcher using your software is not
convincing, you can easily check
if it is the journal's deliberate policy to exclude software
references - e.g. to save space
Even in that case I usually try to insist on citing software. Sometimes
citation of the manual, or a corresponding paper (e.g., in JSS, R News,
JCGS, CSDA, COST, ...) let's sneak it in even if the journal usually does
not have software references.
- or it was simply the author's ignorance why
your package was not cited.
The latter case seems to be more likely though.
In defense of the 'ignorant' author, it should be noted that it is not
always clear how to cite a software.
For example, neither typing citation(tweedie),
If you quote the argument, it works:
R> citation("tweedie")
To cite package 'tweedie' in publications use:
Peter K Dunn (2007). tweedie: Tweedie exponential family models. R
package version 1.5.2.
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Manual{,
title = {tweedie: Tweedie exponential family models},
author = {Peter K Dunn},
year = {2007},
note = {R package version 1.5.2},
}
ATTENTION: This citation information has been auto-generated from the
package DESCRIPTION file and may need manual editing, see
'help("citation")' .
One could complement that by a
url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tweedie}
This could for example be done in a CITATION file (as suggested in my
previous mail) which would also remove the "ATTENTION" message at the end
of the citation() output.
nor browsing through
tweedie's documentation tells me
how to cite it (of course, as a last resort I can mail the author of
the package).
Probably I would not be so helpless if we were in the same research
field though.
Related to this, can offer some explanation how to figure out the
citations of packages in publications?
See ?citation for details.
Z
best wishes,
gabor
Appendix: The sections below are straight from R console.
citation()
To cite R in publications use:
R Development Core Team (2008). 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.
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Manual{,
title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing},
author = {{R Development Core Team}},
organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
address = {Vienna, Austria},
year = {2008},
note = {{ISBN} 3-900051-07-0},
url = {http://www.R-project.org},
}
We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating R, please cite
it when using it for data analysis. See also
?citation("pkgname")? for citing R packages.
citation(tweedie)
Error in match(x, table, nomatch = 0) : 'match' requires vector
arguments
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