Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 1:07 AM, Gabriel Becker wrote: > > [...] > >> >> The work of the other author is duly acknowledged in his position in the >> authors' list. >> As I previously wrote, citing Dusa and Other (2015) implies equal >> citation rights for unequal work, a thing that I am uncomforta

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Adrian Dușa wrote: > Dear Gabriel, > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Gabriel Becker > wrote: > >> [...] >> >>> >>> I apologize for pushing this topic to the limit, but I haven't got an >>> answer to this question yet... >>> >> >> With respect, not receiving the

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

Dear Gabriel, On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Gabriel Becker wrote: > [...] > >> >> I apologize for pushing this topic to the limit, but I haven't got an >> answer to this question yet... >> > > With respect, not receiving the answer you wanted isn't the same as not > receiving an answer. > I

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

Adrian, Responses inline On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Adrian Dușa wrote: > Hi Gabriel, > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Gabriel Becker > wrote: > >> [...] >> >> At the very least, this is seems to be a flagrant violation of the >> *spirit* of the CRAN policy, which AFAIK is intended to

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Adrian Dușa wrote: > > [...] > If the spirit of the CRAN policies is to enforce citing each and every one of the authors, then I don't understand why the citation from package Rcmdr meets this spirit, while my suggestion doesn't. > > I apologize for pushing this to

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

Hi Gabriel, On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Gabriel Becker wrote: > [...] > > At the very least, this is seems to be a flagrant violation of the > *spirit* of the CRAN policy, which AFAIK is intended to enforce > acknowledgement of the contributions of all copyright holders in the > package. Th

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

Dear Adrian, Have a look at the DESCRIPTION of the RODBC package. One of the authors was contributing from 1999 to 2002. I have the feeling that your situation is similar. Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Bi

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

Adrian, I am not on the CRAN or R-core teams, so the following is my own view, but... > library(QCA) > > Users are encouraged to cite this package as: > > Dusa, Adrian (2015). QCA: Qualitative Comparative Analysis. R Package > Version 1.2-0, > URL: http://cran.r-project.org/package=QCA > > T

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > [...] > > To clarify, legally, you can fork a standard GPL package and make any > changes you want, including changing authors fields etc. If you don't own > copyright for the entire work then you cannot change the license without > consent

Re: [Rd] Error generated by .Internal(nchar) disappears when debugging

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 06/10/2015 8:48 AM, Joris Meys wrote: > > > The reason I wouldn't count your original post as a simple reproducible > example (and the same applies to what I saw on Stack Overflow), was that > it required a fairly large package (copula) i

Re: [Rd] Error generated by .Internal(nchar) disappears when debugging

On 06/10/2015 8:48 AM, Joris Meys wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Duncan Murdoch > wrote: > > On 05/10/2015 7:24 PM, Matt Dowle wrote: > > Joris Meys gmail.com > writes: > > > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >>

Re: [Rd] Error generated by .Internal(nchar) disappears when debugging

Thank you for looking at the issue. I've tried it with a tiny package myself and I get the same results. So the problem should solve itself in time. Also thank you Michael for explaining the difference in behaviour when debugging. Cheers Joris On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:41 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

On 6 October 2015 at 13:38, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | Authorship is not just about code. An fair credit about is the only currency we have in Open Source projects. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org __ R-devel@r-

Re: [Rd] Error generated by .Internal(nchar) disappears when debugging

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 05/10/2015 7:24 PM, Matt Dowle wrote: > > Joris Meys gmail.com> writes: > > > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I have a puzzling problem related to nchar. In R 3.2.1, the internal > > nchar > >> gained an extra argument (see > >> https://stat.e

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

On 06/10/2015 12:58, S Ellison wrote: (quoting without attribution to the author, who would appear to be Uwe Liggges). The former co-author contributed, so he is still author and probably copyright holder and has to be listed among the authors, otherwise it would be a CRAN policy violation ..

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

On Oct 6, 2015, at 7:58 AM, S Ellison wrote: >> The former co-author contributed, so he is still author and probably >> copyright >> holder and has to be listed among the authors, otherwise it would be a CRAN >> policy violation ... > > It's a bit of a philosophical question right now, but at

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

On 06 Oct 2015, at 14:09, S Ellison wrote: >> The former co-author contributed, so he is still author and probably >> copyright >> holder and has to be listed among the authors, otherwise it would be a CRAN >> policy violation ... > > It's a bit of a philosophical question right now, but at

Re: [Rd] authorship and citation

> The former co-author contributed, so he is still author and probably copyright > holder and has to be listed among the authors, otherwise it would be a CRAN > policy violation ... It's a bit of a philosophical question right now, but at some point in a developing package's life - particularly o