[R] R-etiquette

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 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.
> 

I keep learning - thanks Brian.  I will add CITATION files in the parent 
directory of my packages.  The defaults generated from 
citation('packagename') for them are not bad.  -Frank