As a biologist, I have been following this thread with interest.
I don't understand how someone can truly peer-review any software
without access to the source. Surely R is the only major environment
for statistical programming that _can_ be peer-reviewed in that
sense. (The BUGS project is hea
On 14-Jun-05 A.J. Rossini wrote:
> Fritz -
>
> That's silly. As someone pointed out, the issue is with the
> publisher, not the citation. If R-Core were a generally well-known
> and regarded publishing house such as Springer or Microsoft, it would
> not be a problem. But it's still a nebulous
At 05:22 PM 14/06/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:42:59 +1000 (EST),
> > Gordon K Smyth (GKS) wrote:
>
> > On Tue, June 14, 2005 12:49 am, Thomas Lumley said:
> >> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Gordon K Smyth wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is just a note that R would get a
On 6/14/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:42:59 +1000 (EST),
> > Gordon K Smyth (GKS) wrote:
>
> > On Tue, June 14, 2005 12:49 am, Thomas Lumley said:
> >> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Gordon K Smyth wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is just a note that R would g
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:42:59 +1000 (EST),
> Gordon K Smyth (GKS) wrote:
> On Tue, June 14, 2005 12:49 am, Thomas Lumley said:
>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Gordon K Smyth wrote:
>>
>>> This is just a note that R would get a lot more citations if the
>>> recommended citation was an a
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:38:38 +1000,
> Gordon Smyth (GS) wrote:
>> Note also that R does have a User Guide, i.e., while there is plenty of
>> excellent documentation,
>> there is no single document which is a guide to the whole project.
> Oops, I meant to write "R does not have
Gordon Smyth wrote:
>>Note also that R does have a User Guide, i.e., while there is plenty of
>>excellent documentation,
>>there is no single document which is a guide to the whole project.
>
>
> Oops, I meant to write "R does not have a User Guide".
>
> Just to explain this further, the citat
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:38:38 +1000 Gordon Smyth wrote:
> >Note also that R does have a User Guide, i.e., while there is plenty
> >of excellent documentation,
> >there is no single document which is a guide to the whole project.
>
> Oops, I meant to write "R does not have a User Guide".
>
> Just
>Note also that R does have a User Guide, i.e., while there is plenty of
>excellent documentation,
>there is no single document which is a guide to the whole project.
Oops, I meant to write "R does not have a User Guide".
Just to explain this further, the citation() function asks me to cite a
On Tue, June 14, 2005 12:49 am, Thomas Lumley said:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Gordon K Smyth wrote:
>
>> This is just a note that R would get a lot more citations if the
>> recommended citation was an article in a recognised journal or from a
>> recognised publisher.
>>
>
> This is unfortunately true,
On Tue, June 14, 2005 1:30 am, Ted Harding said:
> Is a journal reference necessary? I have seen many articles where
> the statistical software (S-Plus, SPSS, SAS, etc.) was "cited" as
> the User Manual, usually only available from the supplier of the
> software, sometimes with a WWW URL. Such case
On 13-Jun-05 Thomas Lumley wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Gordon K Smyth wrote:
>
>> This is just a note that R would get a lot more citations if the
>> recommended citation was an article in a recognised journal or from a
>> recognised publisher.
>>
>
> This is unfortunately true, but R is *not
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Gordon K Smyth wrote:
> This is just a note that R would get a lot more citations if the
> recommended citation was an article in a recognised journal or from a
> recognised publisher.
>
This is unfortunately true, but R is *not* an article or a book, it is a
piece of soft
It's not clear to me why a journal publication is necessary
(although I guess it couldn't hurt). What do you cite when you
use SAS? Or Stata?
-roger
Gordon K Smyth wrote:
> This is just a note that R would get a lot more citations if
> the recommended citation was an article in a recognised
> j
Gordon K Smyth wrote:
>This is just a note that R would get a lot more citations if the recommended
>citation was an
>article in a recognised journal or from a recognised publisher.
>
>I use R in work leading to publications often, and I strongly want to give the
>R core team credit
>for their
There is one easy way to do this. Make R-core the guest editor of a
special
issue of JSS and use that special issue to publish the manuals (which
again
have R-core as author).
On Jun 12, 2005, at 17:37 , Gordon K Smyth wrote:
> This is just a note that R would get a lot more citations if the
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