Title
Who Did What? The Roles of R Package Authors and How to Refer to Them
Abstract
Computational infrastructure for representing persons and citations has been available in R for several years, but has been restructured through enhanced classes "person" and "bibentry" in recent versions of R. The new features include support for the specification of the roles of package authors (e. g. maintainer, author, contributor, translator, etc.) and more flexible formatting/printing tools among various other improvements. Here, we introduce the new classes and their methods and indicate how this functionality is employed in the management of R packages. Specifically, we show how the authors of R packages can be specified along with their roles in package 'DESCRIPTION' and/or 'CITATION' files and the citations produced from it.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.32614/rj-2012-009
R JOURNAL
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
4
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2073-4859
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kurt Hornik12192408.28
Duncan J. Murdoch2172.65
Achim Zeileis357947.82