I was just about to say that this should be a nice carrot for authors to start improving their citations...
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Vincent Carey <[email protected]> wrote: > Very nice. We'll give it a couple of weeks and then announce more > broadly? I'll start improving > my package citations shortly. > > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Martin Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 04/25/2014 01:46 PM, Martin Morgan wrote: >> >>> 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). >>> >> >> Dan has implemented this, see e.g., >> >> 1. http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/ >> GenomicRanges.html >> 2. http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/limma.html >> 3. http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/GenomeInfoDb.html >> >> The citations are derived from a CITATION file if it exists (examples 1 >> and 2) or auto-generated from the DESCRIPTION file (example 3), using the >> equivalent of print(citation("GenomicRanges"), style="html") with some >> post-processing to work around bugs in print.bibentry related to parsing >> strings with embedded escape sequences '%' (example 1). print.bibentry >> prints the citation, but not for instance citHeader (in example 2). >> >> Martin >> >> >> >>> Martin >>> >>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Vincent Carey >>>> <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> >>>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> [email protected] mailing list >>>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> [email protected] mailing list >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> [email protected] mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center >> 1100 Fairview Ave. N. >> PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 >> >> Location: Arnold Building M1 B861 >> Phone: (206) 667-2793 >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
