Re: How to have correct citation of gnumeric

[ken <gebser mousecar com>]

I was referring specifically to the R package.  Much the same-- credits 
and copyrights etc.-- for gnumeric would likewise be found in the files 
which came in the gnumeric package.


On 01/29/2016 07:22 AM, ken wrote:
> If she's after names of people, that's going to be a few names.  This is
> open source, after all.  But in that case in the package itself (and I
> don't know which one she used) she should go through the files contained
> in that package.  I just looked quickly through them and there are
> especially files called README*, CITATION, COPYRIGHTS, and probably
> others containing names of people who contributed effort.  The CITATION
> files contain citations to scholarly journal articles... maybe that's
> what she's after???  And there may be yet other files she would want to
> see.  There are a lot of *.html files too in that package.  Anyway,
> maybe she needs to look in the files already installed on her computer.
>
>
> On 01/29/2016 06:26 AM, Tim Schofield wrote:
> > 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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