I've had an email exchange with the authors of a recent paper
in Nature who also made a good faith effort to cite both R and the
quantreg
package, and were told that the Nature "house style" didn't allow such
citations so they were dropped from the published paper and the
"supplementary material" appearing on the Nature website.
Since the CRAN website makes a special effort to make prior versions
of packages
available, it would seem to me to be much more useful to cite version
numbers than access dates. There are serious questions about the
ephemerality of url citations, not all of which are adequately resolved
by the Wayback machine, and access dating, but it would be nice to
have some better standards for such contingent citations rather than
leave authors at the mercy of copy editors. I would also be
interested in
suggestions by other contributors.
url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker
email rkoen...@uiuc.edu Department of Economics
vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois
fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820
On May 8, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Derek Ogle wrote:
I used R and the quantreg package in a manuscript that is currently in
the proofs stage. I cited both R and quantreg as suggested by
citation() and noted the version of R and quantreg that I used in the
main text as
"All tests were computed with the R v2.9.0 statistical programming
language (R Development Core 2008). Quantile regressions were
conducted
with the quantreg v4.27 package (Koenker 2008) for R."
The editor has asked me to also "provide the date when the webpage was
accessed" for both R and quantreg.
This does not seem like an appropriate request to me as both R and the
quantreg package are versioned. This request seems to me to be the
same
as asking someone when they purchased commercial package X version Y
(which I don't think would be asked).
Am I thinking about this correctly or has the editor made a valid
request?
I would be interested in any comments or opinions.
Dr. Derek H. Ogle
Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Natural Resources
Northland College
1411 Ellis Avenue
Box 112
Ashland, WI
715.682.1300
www.ncfaculty.net/dogle/
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