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________________________________ From: Michael Dewey <li...@dewey.myzen.co.uk> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 1:06 PM To: Dr. Mehdi Dadkhah <drdadk...@outlook.com>; r-help@r-project.org <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R] Question about citing R packages in an academic paper Dear Medhi It is good that you are going to cite the packages properly. I do not think it matters too much whether they are in the article itself or in the supplementary material, the important thing is that they are there. You do not have any legal obligation to cite them, as far as I know although I am not a lawyer, but it is a kindness to the authors. Michael On 22/07/2020 06:26, Dr. Mehdi Dadkhah wrote: > Hi, > I hope you are doing well! > > I have a question. I and my colleagues wrote a paper by using R language and > its packages. We also used some tutorials. We have words count limitation for > our paper. In early version of paper, I cited all packages in the reference > list of paper (my paper will be published in an academic journal). After > that, we had to keep references to tutorials in the reference list and remove > reference to R and its packages (I strictly should fit paper to 2000 words). > We created an online appendix and listed all packages which we used. Some > packages are related to paper. For example, when i used command 'citation()' > in R console for package "tidytext", R informed me that i should cite such > package as this: > > > Silge, J., & Robinson, D. (2016). tidytext: Text Mining and Analysis Using > Tidy Data Principles in R. JOSS, 1(3). https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00037 > > Now, all packages and their related papers are not in the reference list of > paper, but they will be available in an online appendix in the journal > website. Is such practice OK or should I cite all packages in the reference > list? > I attached online appendix. We will submit our paper to a journal soon. > Should I cite papers which are related to packages in the reference list? if > I do not cite, i will face with permission problem regard to usage of package? > > Many thanks! > With best regards, > > > Dr. Mehdi Dadkhah > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Michael http://www.dewey.myzen.co.uk/home.html [[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.
