On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Charles Determan Jr wrote:
Greetings,
I am familiar with the function cite('packageName') which provides the
output generated from the DESCRIPTION file.
...unless the package provides a CITATION file. Then, citation('pkg')
shows the content of the CITATION. citation('pkg', auto = TRUE) always
shows the auto-generated citation based on the DESCRIPTION.
In most cases this is sufficient but I was wondering if there are
contributing authors (in addition to the primary) also listed on the
CRAN page. Is there a proper way to account for them or are they
generally not listed?
In recent versions of R, package developers have the possiblity to assign
roles to the persons contributing to an R package (based on the MARC
vocabulary). If this has been done, then citation('pkg', auto = TRUE)
lists all persons with an "author" role but none of the others (e.g.,
contributors, translators, thesis advisors, etc.). See
http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2012-1/RJournal_2012-1_Hornik~et~al.pdf
for details.
If there is neither a CITATION file nor a DESCRIPTION with Authors@R
(using the role vocabulary mentioned above) then it is not quite clear who
exactly should be cited and who not. I think in most cases, it is ok to
omit persons described by "with contributions by..." etc.
Hth,
Z
Regards,
--
Charles Determan
Integrated Biosciences PhD Candidate
University of Minnesota
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