> I guess my problem is that there is even an "if" at the beginning of that > sentence. That's not an attack on you, I know that the above reflects the > current state of affairs, I'm simply saying that perhaps Bioconductor, as a > project, can help/encourage people to do better.
Quite true. Perhaps that could be emphasized as part of adding the redirect rules. I am always delighted when people cite the version number of a package, as it shows that they care about the quality of their work, and the stability of its conclusions. People rarely do what they know is right; they do what is convenient, then repent. (Bob Dylan pointed this out a while ago...) Thus it is more likely that a person will do the right thing if it happens to be the most convenient thing IMHO. Anything to advance this strategy would be a step in the right direction Best, --t > ~G > >> >> --t >> >> > On Mar 23, 2015, at 8:38 AM, Gabe Becker <becker.g...@gene.com> wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Fischer, Bernd < >> > b.fisc...@dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> During the production process of the paper we want to link to the >> >> accompanying >> >> BioC package that is in devel, but not yet in release. Before the first >> >> release, the >> >> link (e.g. www.bioconductor.org/<packagename>) should go to the devel >> >> version >> >> (maybe with an additional warning that it is only available in devel), >> >> before the >> >> first release of the package and should go to release afterwards. >> > >> > I understand the appeal of this, but decoupling publications from the >> > actual, exact versions they discuss or use seems like a relatively large >> > step backwards in terms of reproducibility. At the very least, I think >> > there is some nuance here that warrants careful consideration before we >> > adopt a single-silently-changing-link-per-package paradigm. >> > >> > ~G >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> Bernd >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 23.03.2015, at 11:45, Sean Davis <seand...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Just so we don't lose the thoughts that have come before, here is a link >> >> to >> >>> a similar proposal from last year. >> >>> >> >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2014-February/005292.html >> >>> >> >>> Sean >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Wolfgang Huber <whu...@embl.de> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> I wonder whether it’d possible to have the website understand URLs like >> >>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/<pkgname> >> >>>> >> >>>> This could resolve to >> >>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html >> >>>> or >> >>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html >> >>>> depending on whether the package was yet released. >> >>>> >> >>>> This could be handy in papers or grants that mention packages. >> >>>> >> >>>> Wolfgang >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> ---- >> >>>> Wolfgang Huber >> >>>> Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist >> >>>> Genome Biology Unit >> >>>> European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) >> >>>> Heidelberg, Germany >> >>>> >> >>>> T +49-6221-3878823 >> >>>> wolfgang.hu...@embl.de >> >>>> http://www.huber.embl.de >> >>>> >> >>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> >>> >> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Gabriel Becker, Ph.D >> > Computational Biologist >> > Genentech Research >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > > > -- > Gabriel Becker, Ph.D > Computational Biologist > Genentech Research [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel