Context for citing ggplot?

[David L]

Regarding 'ways to support ggplot2' https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/wiki/Ways-to-support-ggplot2

Using citation("ggplot2") gives the citation information, and I would
like to support the project in this way, but given that the tool used
to plot my results is not directly related to the science at hand, it
is not clear how exactly to cite ggplot in the text, except perhaps in
the acknowledgements.

Any suggestions or examples?

[Clauidia Beleites]

Dear David,

I'm currently preparing a manuscript where the respective information
(in LaTeX) reads:
...
All further data processing was done in the statistical environment
R\cite{R}, using the package
ggplot2\cite{ggplot2} for graphical display.

\paragraph{Pre-processing.~}
The spectra were imported into the spectra handling package
hyperSpec\cite{hyperSpec} using
R.matlab\cite{R.matlab}. The spectral ranges below 755\rcm and between
1850 and 2500\rcm were
discarded. Co-additions were multiplicatively signal corrected (package
pls\cite{Mevik2007}) and
...

We chemists are usually giving very detailed descriptions, much more
detailed than it is e.g. customary in many fields of physics. If this
detailed citation scheme is uncommon in your field, it should be
possible to include a summary sentence like
All data processing was done in the statistical environment R\cite{R},
using the packages
\cite{long, list, of, all, used, packages}.

I have a bunch of automatic citation and .bib file generation functions,
which you can find towards the end of my helper file for package
vignettes
(http://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/Vignettes/vignettes.defs?view=markup&root=hyperspec).
They are particularly useful for Sweave documents (for usage examples,
see e.g. the end of the vignette .Rnws in Vignettes/plotting/ and
Vignettes/laser/).

HTH

Claudia

[Kohske Takahashi]

Hi,

There are quite a lot of papers citing statistical software used in
their analyses,
e.g., see:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22analyses+were+conducted+using+R%22+OR+%22analyses+were+conducted+using+SPSS%22

I think it is possible and reasonable to include the visualization
tool, so how about like this:

"The statistical analyses and visualization were conducted using R
2.12.1 [1] and ggplot2 8.9.0 [2]."

please fix my poor English ;-)

Why I think visualization tool can be included in the citation along
with the analyses software:
IMHO, visualization is getting more and more important in scientific
investigation.
Large and/or complicated data cannot be understood without
visualization from diverse aspects.
So, in a sense, visualization may be more than just plotting after
analyses, and be a part of analyses that enables to deeply inspect
data.
ggplot2 kindly helps me to work with the routine of inspecting data.
This is why I like and need ggplot2.

However, please note that I'm not sure that everyone, including
editors and reviewers, will agree to citing visualization tools.

HTH,

kohske

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Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology,
The University of  Tokyo, Japan.
http://www.fennel.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/profilee_ktakahashi.html

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[David LeBauer]

Hi Kohske,

Your rationale has helped me better appreciate the role of
visualization as a method of scientific inquiry. In this light, I
think that it is totally reasonable and defensible to add 'and
visualization with ggplot2' in the statistical methods section.

Thank you for your insight,

David

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Energy Biosciences Institute
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[Adam_L...@keybank.com]

From someone working outside the confines of formal research practices:

Are citations like these required legally? A service to readers of the study? A tribute to the developers of the software? Or simply a convention?


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[romunov]

One should leave a trail or description of your analysis so that others can replicate it and citing a reference unambiguously tells the reader of the work used in your research (be that a fully-pledged scientific paper or as in this case, a fully-pledged package.

Cheers,
Roman

In God we trust, all others bring data.

[Dianne Cook]

And the citation count can help a young professor get promoted, btw. So another way to think about the work, if it's useful cite it so that the author can get appropriate credit for career purposes.

cheers,

Di

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