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Advice on Citation for geoR

2 messages · Ben Madin, Roger Bivand

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Ben Madin
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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 and the information in the R-news article may be somewhat outdated.
Roger Bivand
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On Tue, 31 May 2011, Ben Madin wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
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.

            

      
      
      
    

        
Happily, more journals are letting us cite both manuals and the software 
itself, so citation by default gives the software reference.

Roger