Adelchi,
I have a similar situation where I had made all of the typical academic
references within the code and documentation for a small but important function
my package uses. I was asked by the CRAN reviewers to add the author of that
function to the DESCRIPTION Authors@R section. I added the following:
person("Terry", "Therneau", role = c("aut”))
Mark
R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.
Data Scientist and Biomedical Statistical Consultant
7526 Meadow Green St.
San Antonio, TX 78251
mobile: 210-218-2868
rmsh...@me.com
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> From: Adelchi Azzalini <azzal...@stat.unipd.it>
> Subject: [R] a question of etiquette
> Date: June 1, 2020 at 11:34:00 AM CDT
> To: r-h...@r-project.org
>
> The new version of a package which I maintain will include a new function
> which I have ported to R from Matlab.
> The documentation of this R function indicates the authors of the original
> Matlab code, reference to their paper, URL of the source code.
>
> Question: is this adequate, or should I include them as co-authors of the
> package, or as contributors, or what else?
> Is there a general policy about this matter?
>
> Adelchi Azzalini
> http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it/
>
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