Many thanks to Henrik and Spencer, Professor Ripley, and others. The trick that I had missed (found in 'Writing R Extensions') is that the CITATION file must be located in the 'inst' subdirectory of the package sources.
Again, my gratitude to all. Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henrik Bengtsson Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] HOW to provide a CITATION file? See 'Writing R Extensions' via help.start() and then search for CITATION. My $.02 /Henrik On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Charles Annis, P.E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, R-ians: > > I am sure I am missing something obvious. > > How do I provide a CITATION file for my home-brew package, so that it will > be packaged using > > R CMD build --binary myPackage? > > I have placed a CITATION file in the myPackage directory along with the > DESCRIPTION file, but it is ignored. > > Thanks for your guidance. > > > Charles Annis, P.E. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 561-352-9699 > eFax: 614-455-3265 > http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
