[R] Citing Package Contributing Authors

Stephan Kolassa Stephan.Kolassa at gmx.de
Mon Aug 26 22:02:57 CEST 2013


Hi,

it usually is a good idea to look at the output of citation() (which, 
however, also often is auto-generated) or at the authors listed in 
package vignettes.

And thanks for citing R package authors. When I review papers, I often 
have to remind authors of this...

Best
Stephan

On 26.08.2013 21:56, Charles Determan Jr wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am familiar with the function cite('packageName') which provides the
> output generated from the DESCRIPTION file.  In most cases this is
> sufficient but I was wondering if there are contributing authors (in
> addition to the primary) also listed on the CRAN page.  Is there a proper
> way to account for them or are they generally not listed?
>
> Regards,
>



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