Re: How to have correct citation of gnumeric

[Tim Schofield <tim weberpafrica com>]

Ken, I think Gabriela is asking how Gnumeric should be credited in the
paper they are publishing.

Tim

On 29 January 2016 at 10:59, ken <gebser mousecar com> wrote:
> On 01/28/2016 11:33 AM, Gabriela Hoff wrote:
> > Dear Sir or Madam
> >
> > I am using R statisitcal tookit and Gnumeric to perform statistical
> > analysis to a paper and I would like to have the correct citation to
> > gnumeric in this paper.
> > I am using the statistical package of the last gnumeric version available.
> >
> > To R I was able to retrieve the infomration:
> > "[31] R Core Team. R: A language and environment for statistical
> > computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL
> > http://www.R-project.org/. (2014)."
> >
> > I tried to find information in the webpage but I didn't succeed.
> > Would you, please, send me the directions to find the correct citation?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > --
> > Gabriela Hoff
> > Dra. Biociência Nucleares - Física Médica
> > Fone: 51 83333588
>
>
> Gabriela,
>
> I don't understand what sort of citation you're seeking or what that
> citation is meant to verify or support.  Perhaps you could explain this
> more...?
>
> In the off-chance it might be helpful, here's the entry for R-core included
> in the RPM package:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> $ rpm -qi R-core
> Name        : R-core                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 3.2.3                             Vendor: Fedora Project
> Release     : 1.el5                         Build Date: Fri 11 Dec 2015
> 09:19:43 PM EST
> Install Date: Wed 06 Jan 2016 09:37:28 AM EST      Build Host:
> buildvm-03.phx2.fedoraproject.org
> Group       : Applications/Engineering      Source RPM:
> R-3.2.3-1.el5.src.rpm
> Size        : 84421779                         License: GPLv2+
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 15 Dec 2015 04:30:09 AM EST, Key ID
> 119cc036217521f6
> Packager    : Fedora Project
> URL         : http://www.r-project.org
> Summary     : The minimal R components necessary for a functional runtime
> Description :
> A language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
> R is similar to the award-winning S system, which was developed at
> Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It provides a wide
> variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear and
> nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis,
> classification, clustering, ...).
>
> R is designed as a true computer language with control-flow
> constructions for iteration and alternation, and it allows users to
> add additional functionality by defining new functions. For
> computationally intensive tasks, C, C++ and Fortran code can be linked
> and called at run time.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
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