[R] R-etiquette

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Anne wrote:

> I'm about to present a report (for internal use of governmental agency). 
> I used extensively R , contibuted packages, as well as communications on 
> the R-list
>
> As well as citing R, I would like to know how to cite the contributed 
> packages (it is not so easy, as some have been used exensively, other 
> marginally, some are called from another package and some were not used 
> as softwares but gave me insight of how to proceed), as well as thank 
> the persons who generously responded to my demands on the list...
>
> Is there an established way of doing that?

See the citation() function, which works for packages too and a few 
authors have taken advantage of the means of customizing it.

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