I wonder whether the software that makes the package landing pages (e.g.: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/minfi.html ) could be tweaked to display the actual citation suggested in a package CITATION file. Right now, it says 'To cite this package in a publication, start R and enter: citation(?minfi?)?. Which is already a good start, but requires the reader to have an R session available, install the package, and type these words. Things that could be easily automated, and where there is no obvious benefit from having the user do these computations, as their result is anyway predictable. What do you think? Kind regards Wolfgang
[Bioc-devel] CITATION on the Bioc package landing page?
4 messages · Wolfgang Huber, Vincent Carey, Michael Lawrence +1 more
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On 04/24/2014 01:51 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
Agreed. Would be nice if the build system could detect changes to CITATION and update the web page accordingly. Must already happen for DESCRIPTION.
This will be implemented (over the next several weeks). Martin
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Vincent Carey <stvjc at channing.harvard.edu>wrote:
+1. this will be a good motivation for maintainers to get the CITATION entry right. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Wolfgang Huber <whuber at embl.de> wrote:
I wonder whether the software that makes the package landing pages (e.g.: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/minfi.html ) could be tweaked to display the actual citation suggested in a package CITATION
file.
Right now, it says 'To cite this package in a publication, start R and
enter: citation("minfi")'. Which is already a good start, but requires
the
reader to have an R session available, install the package, and type
these
words. Things that could be easily automated, and where there is no
obvious
benefit from having the user do these computations, as their result is
anyway predictable.
What do you think?
Kind regards
Wolfgang
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