Achim Zeileis wrote:
... [ snip ] ...
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.
In two recent in press articles where I cited R packages,
I was asked by the copy-editor to add a location or url to the
references. Could I suggest that citation() be modified to include
the URL automatically?
In the function, this would entail replacing the line
z$url <- meta$URL
with something like
z$url <- if (is.null(meta$URL)
paste("http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=";, package, sep="") else meta$URL
I say "something like" because I'm not sure how to handle other
repositories.
Along similar lines, someone recently posted a script to generate
a .bib file for all packages installed. It would be useful if someone
were to implement that script for CRAN and make the resulting
R-packages.bib file available on the CRAN site.
-Michael
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