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R citation for the 2012

6 messages · Jorge I Velez, Sarah Goslee, gianni lavaredo +2 more

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Typing
citation()
at an R prompt will provide you with complete citation information for
the version of
R you are using. Same goes for packages, with citation("pkgname").

Sarah

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:29 AM, gianni lavaredo
<gianni.lavaredo at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    
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I'm not sure what the "official description" of R is beyond that given
in citation(), but the R FAQ gives this: "[R] consists of a language
plus a run-time environment." Part of R's personality, as far as I can
tell, comes from the fact it straddles the general purpose
language/domain specific language/application/platform divide without
coming down hard on any particular side (though history suggests it's
gotten much more "language"-y than the early versions of S).

As far as what to put in an article, it's probably sensitive to the
domain of the publication: in something like JSS, it would be silly to
explain what R is, while it might be worth being more specific in
non-stats journals. Given how people tend to use the terminology, I'd
probably use "statistical programming language" if I were talking to
non-computer scientists and the quoted phrase above in an audience
where "programming language" might be more strictly defined.

R-Core might want to say more as to their preferences, but I'd imagine
if you have the citation() around, that's going to be acceptable to
99% of journal editors.

Hope this helps,
Michael

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:08 PM, gianni lavaredo
<gianni.lavaredo at gmail.com> wrote:
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On Feb 15, 2012, at 17:29 , gianni lavaredo wrote:

            
There's no released R version from 2012 -- yet. Wait two weeks and there will be one.

-pd