Advice on Citation for geoR
On Tue, 31 May 2011, Ben Madin wrote:
G'day,
I am just checking - the citation('geoR') command returns :
@Article{,
title = {geo{R}: a package for geostatistical analysis},
author = {Paulo J. Ribeiro Jr and Peter J. Diggle},
journal = {R-NEWS},
year = {2001},
month = {June},
volume = {1},
number = {2},
pages = {14--18},
note = {ISSN 1609-3631},
url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/},
}
whereas rgdal returns :
@Manual{,
title = {rgdal: Bindings for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library},
author = {Timothy H. Keitt and Roger Bivand and Edzer Pebesma and Barry Rowlingson},
year = {2010},
note = {R package version 0.6-33},
url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rgdal},
}
Using the article citation is fine, but I haven't read the R-news
article, and feel that the manual pages for geoR are probably more up to
date... and the information in the R-news article may be somewhat
outdated.
R-News is online, so you could check. I suspect that citation() should
also give:
@book{Diggle+Ribeiro:2007,
title ={Model-Based Geostatistics},
author = { Diggle, P. J. and {Ribeiro Jr.}, P. J.},
publisher = { Springer },
address = {New York},
year = { 2007 }
}
which covers geoR in detail. Ideally, the package CITATION file should be
kept up to date, but I don't think that package maintainers focus on this.
From an academic perspective, am I bette to cite the manual using a similar style to rgdal?
Happily, more journals are letting us cite both manuals and the software itself, so citation by default gives the software reference. Roger
cheers Ben
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