Very good point about the referencing. I wonder if this is happening to users of Stata or SAS as well?
John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: marc_schwa...@me.com > Sent: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:24:13 -0500 > To: bgunter.4...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [R] 'R' Software Output Plagiarism > > Hi, > > With the usual caveat that I Am Not A Lawyer....and that I am not > speaking on behalf of any organization... > > My guess is that they are claiming that the output of R, simply being > copied and pasted verbatim into your thesis constitutes the use of > copyrighted output from the software. > > It is not clear to me that R's output is copyrighted by the R Foundation > (or by other parties for CRAN packages), albeit, the source code > underlying R is, along with other copyright owner's as apropos. There is > some caselaw to support the notion that the output alone is not protected > in a similar manner, but that may be country specific. > > Did you provide any credit to R (see the output of citation() ) in your > thesis and indicate that your analyses were performed using R? > > If R is uncredited, I could see them raising the issue. > > You might check with your institution's legal/policy folks to see if > there is any guidance provided for students regarding the crediting of > software used in this manner, especially if that guidance is at no cost > to you. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > >> On Sep 22, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> 1. It is highly unlikely that we could be of help (unless someone else >> has experienced this and knows what happened). You will have to >> contact the Urkund people and ask them why their algorithms raised the >> flags. >> >> 2. But of course, the regression methodology is not "your own" -- it's >> just a standard tool that you used in your work, which is entirely >> legitimate of course. >> >> Cheers, >> Bert >> >> >> Bert Gunter >> >> "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge >> is certainly not wisdom." >> -- Clifford Stoll >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:27 AM, BARRETT, Oliver >> <oliver.barr...@skema.edu> wrote: >>> >>> Dear 'R' community support, >>> >>> >>> I am a student at Skema business school and I have recently submitted >>> my MSc thesis/dissertation. This has been passed on to an external >>> plagiarism service provider, Urkund, who have scanned my document and >>> returned a plagiarism report to my professor having detected 32% >>> plagiarism. >>> >>> >>> I have contacted Urkund regarding this issue having committed no such >>> plagiarism and they have told me that all the plagiarism detected in my >>> document comes from the last 25% which consists only of 'R' regressions >>> like the one I have pasted below: >>> >>> lm(formula = Prague50 ~ Fed + Fed.t.1. + Fed.t.2. + Fed.t.3. + >>> Fed.t.4., data = OLS_CAR, x = TRUE) >>> >>> Residuals: >>> Min 1Q Median 3Q Max >>> -0.154587 -0.015961 0.001429 0.017196 0.110907 >>> >>> Coefficients: >>> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) >>> (Intercept) -0.001630 0.001763 -0.925 0.3559 >>> Fed -0.121595 0.165359 -0.735 0.4627 >>> Fed.t.1. 0.344014 0.140979 2.440 0.0153 * >>> Fed.t.2. 0.026529 0.143648 0.185 0.8536 >>> Fed.t.3. 0.622357 0.142021 4.382 1.62e-05 *** >>> Fed.t.4. 0.291985 0.158914 1.837 0.0671 . >>> --- >>> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 >>> >>> Residual standard error: 0.0293 on 304 degrees of freedom >>> (20 observations deleted due to missingness) >>> Multiple R-squared: 0.08629, Adjusted R-squared: 0.07126 >>> F-statistic: 5.742 on 5 and 304 DF, p-value: 4.422e-05 >>> >>> I have produced all of these regressions myself and pasted them >>> directly from the 'R' software package. My regression methodology is >>> entirely my own along with the sourcing and preperation of the data >>> used to produce these statistics. >>> >>> I would be very grateful if you could provide my with some clarity as >>> to why this output from 'R' is reading as plagiarism. >>> >>> I would like to thank you in advance, >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Oliver Barrett >>> (+44) 7341 834 217 >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ____________________________________________________________ Can't remember your password? 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