Citation
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I was recently asked if there was a citation for {webR}
. I'm not sure if a technical report or an archive of the repository was placed on Zenodo. So, is there a preferred citation for {webR}
?
If not, would the following be okay to recommend?
Stagg, G and Henry, L. webR: The statistical language R compiled to WebAssembly via Emscripten, for use in web browsers and Node. 2023. https://github.com/r-wasm/webr/
There is currently no preferred citation or a published report for webR. At some point, we should use Zenodo (or otherwise publish) to get a DOI and update the repository with a CITATION
file. I'll leave the issue open to remind myself to revisit that in the future.
In the meantime, something along those lines looks reasonable. I would suggest just a few minor changes:
- Slightly shorter title,
- Use
et al.
since there are now more contributors to the GitHub repository, - Cite a specific version,
- Very minor: I tend to use my middle initial for citations.
So, something like:
G. W. Stagg, L. Henry, et al. webR: The statistical language R compiled to WebAssembly via Emscripten, 2023, version 0.2.2. https://github.com/r-wasm/webr
Or, in bibTeX,
@manual{webr,
title = {webR: The statistical language R compiled to WebAssembly via Emscripten},
author = {Stagg, G. W. and Henry, L. and others},
year = 2023,
url = {https://github.com/r-wasm/webr},
note = {Version 0.2.2}
}