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:
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> Adelchi,
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> 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”))
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> 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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>> 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/
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>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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