Thanks for this information, Mark. Given the phrase "small but important function my package uses", it seems that you included in your package some code, reproducing it verbatim. Do I understand correctly? In my case, the code which I am actually using is the R porting of code originally written in another language, namely Matlab.
Best wishes, Adelchi > On 1 Jun 2020, at 23:37, R. Mark Sharp <rmsh...@me.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> 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/ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> r-h...@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel