It would be nice if each package went through a peer-review and had a related publication (either in R-news or J Stat Soft). This publication can then be used as the official citation for the package. However, this still would not address updates and versions of the package.
Ravi. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Center on Aging and Health Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Johns Hopkins University Ph: (410) 502-2619 Fax: (410) 614-9625 Email: rvarad...@jhmi.edu Webpage: http://www.jhsph.edu/agingandhealth/People/Faculty/Varadhan.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of roger koenker Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 8:36 AM To: Derek Ogle Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Citing R/Packages Question I've had an email exchange with the authors of a recent paper in Nature who also made a good faith effort to cite both R and the quantreg package, and were told that the Nature "house style" didn't allow such citations so they were dropped from the published paper and the "supplementary material" appearing on the Nature website. Since the CRAN website makes a special effort to make prior versions of packages available, it would seem to me to be much more useful to cite version numbers than access dates. There are serious questions about the ephemerality of url citations, not all of which are adequately resolved by the Wayback machine, and access dating, but it would be nice to have some better standards for such contingent citations rather than leave authors at the mercy of copy editors. I would also be interested in suggestions by other contributors. url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoen...@uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 On May 8, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Derek Ogle wrote: > I used R and the quantreg package in a manuscript that is currently in > the proofs stage. I cited both R and quantreg as suggested by > citation() and noted the version of R and quantreg that I used in the > main text as > > > > "All tests were computed with the R v2.9.0 statistical programming > language (R Development Core 2008). Quantile regressions were > conducted with the quantreg v4.27 package (Koenker 2008) for R." > > > > The editor has asked me to also "provide the date when the webpage was > accessed" for both R and quantreg. > > > > This does not seem like an appropriate request to me as both R and the > quantreg package are versioned. This request seems to me to be the > same > as asking someone when they purchased commercial package X version Y > (which I don't think would be asked). > > > > Am I thinking about this correctly or has the editor made a valid > request? > > > > I would be interested in any comments or opinions. > > > > Dr. Derek H. Ogle > > Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Natural Resources > > Northland College > > 1411 Ellis Avenue > > Box 112 > > Ashland, WI > > 715.682.1300 > > www.ncfaculty.net/dogle/ > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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 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 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.
