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How can I determine who the authors of a package are? Given that we have this widely used code base, I think it is appropriate that I make a reference to the software I use in my analysis.
Is there a way to programmatically retrieve the author and any other relevant information?
In pseudocode, I want to do the following:
references("base")
How can I do that?
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R was first implemented in the early 1990's by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka, both faculty members at the University of Auckland. Robert and Ross established R as an open source project in 1995. Since 1997, the R project has been managed by the R Core Group. And in February 2000, R 1.0.
So in conclusion: while R itself is mostly written in C (with hefty chunks in R and Fortran), R packages are mostly written in R (with hefty chunks written in C/C++).
Besides finding the DESCRIPTION files such as cran.r-project.org or stat.ethz.ch, you can also access the description file inside R with the command packageDescription("package") , via the documentation of the package help(package = "package") , or online in the repository of the package.
To be able to cite R or a package, use citation.
citation() #for base packages or R itself
citation("nlme")
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