[R] HOW to provide a CITATION file?

Henrik Bengtsson hb at stat.berkeley.edu
Sun Nov 16 04:10:35 CET 2008


Are you referring to the update that you now reach 'R: Search
Engine'(*) when you call help.start() whereas before you got to the
'Statistical Data Analysis' main menu from where 'Writing R
Extensions' is available (in HTML format)?   You can reach the latter
from the former by clicking on the up-arrow icon.  [Suggestion to
R-core: Maybe clicking on the R-logo could also bring you to the main
menu.].

/Henrik

(*) At least with R v2.8.0 and Firefox 3.0

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at pdf.com> wrote:
>     "Writing R Extensions" is no longer available via "help.start()", at
> least not in the standard Windows install since R 2.7.2.  If there is a way
> to get it to work again like it used to, I'd like to know.  The only way I
> know to get it is to go to "www.r-project.org" -> Manuals -> "Writing R
> Extensions".
>     From there, if I want to make a local copy, I must avoid the obvious
> File -> "Save Page As", because that gives me HTML.  Instead, there is a
> "Save a copy" button in the upper left of the subwindow containing
> "R-exts.pdf", which I must press to get that particular document.
>     Best Wishes,
>     Spencer
>
> Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>>
>> See 'Writing R Extensions' via help.start() and then search for CITATION.
>>
>> My $.02 /Henrik
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Charles Annis, P.E.
>> <Charles.Annis at statisticalengineering.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Greetings, R-ians:
>>>
>>> I am sure I am missing something obvious.
>>>
>>> How do I provide a CITATION file for my home-brew package, so that it
>>> will
>>> be packaged using
>>>
>>> R CMD build --binary myPackage?
>>>
>>> I have placed a CITATION file in the myPackage directory along with the
>>> DESCRIPTION file, but it is ignored.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your guidance.
>>>
>>>
>>> Charles Annis, P.E.
>>>
>>> Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
>>> phone: 561-352-9699
>>> eFax:  614-455-3265
>>> http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
>>>
>>>
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