Should I cite R or RStudio?
I ran my data analysis and created my graphs in RStudio, but RStudio is just a platform for R. In my paper should I cite R or RStudio?
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I have never seen anyone cite Rstudio. It would be like citing Word
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I ran my data analysis and created my graphs in RStudio, but RStudio is just a platform for R. In my paper should I cite R or RStudio?
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I have never seen anyone cite Rstudio. It would be like citing Word
– Azor Ahai
7 hours ago
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I have never seen anyone cite Rstudio. It would be like citing Word
– Azor Ahai
7 hours ago
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I have never seen anyone cite Rstudio. It would be like citing Word
– Azor Ahai
7 hours ago
I have never seen anyone cite Rstudio. It would be like citing Word
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RStudio is an IDE for R — essentially an editor and debugger packed together. Your work is made possible by statisticians who developed the language R and graphical packages for it. If you want to cite R in your publication, here is the explanation how to do it.
answered 7 hours ago
Dmitry SavostyanovDmitry Savostyanov
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Google Scholar is probably not doing a great job of tracking these software citations compared to journal articles that fit standard citation formatting better, but RStudio has ~1,800 citations whereas R has over 100,000 using the most common citation aggregate for each.
Many people cite neither and instead cite particular packages that they use, but by far it is more common to cite R which includes all of the base libraries, etc. RStudio is only an IDE, and although it could be useful and you are free to cite it as having been helpful in your development, anyone can take your R code written with the help of RStudio and run it with only R and get the same result.
answered 6 hours ago
Bryan KrauseBryan Krause
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To follow on, if my PI and I collaborate on an R script, and I use RStudio and she uses emacs, should we cite both? It would seem wrong to cite emacs, so by extension, I see little reason to cite Rstudio.
– Azor Ahai
4 hours ago
@AzorAhai I agree that it is not typical to cite text editors, IDEs are a bit more involved but you don't typically cite those either. When someone cites something like Matlab or SAS or Stata, they aren't just citing the IDE and GUI but the underlying algorithms that have been tested, validated etc; the equivalent for that would be R, not RStudio.
– Bryan Krause
4 hours ago
add a comment |
Cite what you use. RStudio has a collection of developers who have made your work possible. Cite them. R is a language so it is, perhaps, less important to cite it. But if it has features that are important to your work, cite it. If you had used Python to do data analysis it might not be necessary to name it if there was nothing special about Python, but R is specialized for statistics so more likely that it should be cited.
Cite what you use. It is a courtesy to those who enable your work if nothing else. Citing RStudio
answered 8 hours ago
BuffyBuffy
48.7k13159243
What is the downside to citing RStudio? Why the downvotes for this excellent answer (as usual from @Buffy)?
– JeremyC
6 hours ago
2
@JeremyC Probably coming from the suggestion that citing R is less important and perhaps the misunderstanding that R is "just" a language whereas RStudio is what "made your work possible."
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
1
@JeremyC More carefully considered than that? I do agree that a comment would be useful to explain but I think disagreement with an entire answer is a suitable reason to downvote if someone thinks that following the answer would mislead the OP or others with a similar question.
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
3
I did not downvote this, but I 100% defend the right to downvote if one thinks that the content of an answer is wrong / unwise, without need for further comments.
– Federico Poloni
5 hours ago
2
@Buffy Have you used R? Your answer makes it sound like you have not.
– Azor Ahai
1 hour ago
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RStudio is an IDE for R — essentially an editor and debugger packed together. Your work is made possible by statisticians who developed the language R and graphical packages for it. If you want to cite R in your publication, here is the explanation how to do it.
answered 7 hours ago
Dmitry SavostyanovDmitry Savostyanov
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RStudio is an IDE for R — essentially an editor and debugger packed together. Your work is made possible by statisticians who developed the language R and graphical packages for it. If you want to cite R in your publication, here is the explanation how to do it.
answered 7 hours ago
Dmitry SavostyanovDmitry Savostyanov
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add a comment |
RStudio is an IDE for R — essentially an editor and debugger packed together. Your work is made possible by statisticians who developed the language R and graphical packages for it. If you want to cite R in your publication, here is the explanation how to do it.
answered 7 hours ago
Dmitry SavostyanovDmitry Savostyanov
26.1k1055108
RStudio is an IDE for R — essentially an editor and debugger packed together. Your work is made possible by statisticians who developed the language R and graphical packages for it. If you want to cite R in your publication, here is the explanation how to do it.
answered 7 hours ago
Dmitry SavostyanovDmitry Savostyanov
26.1k1055108
answered 7 hours ago
Dmitry SavostyanovDmitry Savostyanov
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answered 7 hours ago
Dmitry SavostyanovDmitry Savostyanov
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Google Scholar is probably not doing a great job of tracking these software citations compared to journal articles that fit standard citation formatting better, but RStudio has ~1,800 citations whereas R has over 100,000 using the most common citation aggregate for each.
Many people cite neither and instead cite particular packages that they use, but by far it is more common to cite R which includes all of the base libraries, etc. RStudio is only an IDE, and although it could be useful and you are free to cite it as having been helpful in your development, anyone can take your R code written with the help of RStudio and run it with only R and get the same result.
answered 6 hours ago
Bryan KrauseBryan Krause
13.4k13862
To follow on, if my PI and I collaborate on an R script, and I use RStudio and she uses emacs, should we cite both? It would seem wrong to cite emacs, so by extension, I see little reason to cite Rstudio.
– Azor Ahai
4 hours ago
@AzorAhai I agree that it is not typical to cite text editors, IDEs are a bit more involved but you don't typically cite those either. When someone cites something like Matlab or SAS or Stata, they aren't just citing the IDE and GUI but the underlying algorithms that have been tested, validated etc; the equivalent for that would be R, not RStudio.
– Bryan Krause
4 hours ago
add a comment |
Google Scholar is probably not doing a great job of tracking these software citations compared to journal articles that fit standard citation formatting better, but RStudio has ~1,800 citations whereas R has over 100,000 using the most common citation aggregate for each.
Many people cite neither and instead cite particular packages that they use, but by far it is more common to cite R which includes all of the base libraries, etc. RStudio is only an IDE, and although it could be useful and you are free to cite it as having been helpful in your development, anyone can take your R code written with the help of RStudio and run it with only R and get the same result.
answered 6 hours ago
Bryan KrauseBryan Krause
13.4k13862
To follow on, if my PI and I collaborate on an R script, and I use RStudio and she uses emacs, should we cite both? It would seem wrong to cite emacs, so by extension, I see little reason to cite Rstudio.
– Azor Ahai
4 hours ago
@AzorAhai I agree that it is not typical to cite text editors, IDEs are a bit more involved but you don't typically cite those either. When someone cites something like Matlab or SAS or Stata, they aren't just citing the IDE and GUI but the underlying algorithms that have been tested, validated etc; the equivalent for that would be R, not RStudio.
– Bryan Krause
4 hours ago
add a comment |
Google Scholar is probably not doing a great job of tracking these software citations compared to journal articles that fit standard citation formatting better, but RStudio has ~1,800 citations whereas R has over 100,000 using the most common citation aggregate for each.
Many people cite neither and instead cite particular packages that they use, but by far it is more common to cite R which includes all of the base libraries, etc. RStudio is only an IDE, and although it could be useful and you are free to cite it as having been helpful in your development, anyone can take your R code written with the help of RStudio and run it with only R and get the same result.
answered 6 hours ago
Bryan KrauseBryan Krause
13.4k13862
Google Scholar is probably not doing a great job of tracking these software citations compared to journal articles that fit standard citation formatting better, but RStudio has ~1,800 citations whereas R has over 100,000 using the most common citation aggregate for each.
Many people cite neither and instead cite particular packages that they use, but by far it is more common to cite R which includes all of the base libraries, etc. RStudio is only an IDE, and although it could be useful and you are free to cite it as having been helpful in your development, anyone can take your R code written with the help of RStudio and run it with only R and get the same result.
answered 6 hours ago
Bryan KrauseBryan Krause
13.4k13862
answered 6 hours ago
Bryan KrauseBryan Krause
13.4k13862
answered 6 hours ago
Bryan KrauseBryan Krause
13.4k13862
answered 6 hours ago
Bryan KrauseBryan Krause
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13.4k13862
To follow on, if my PI and I collaborate on an R script, and I use RStudio and she uses emacs, should we cite both? It would seem wrong to cite emacs, so by extension, I see little reason to cite Rstudio.
– Azor Ahai
4 hours ago
@AzorAhai I agree that it is not typical to cite text editors, IDEs are a bit more involved but you don't typically cite those either. When someone cites something like Matlab or SAS or Stata, they aren't just citing the IDE and GUI but the underlying algorithms that have been tested, validated etc; the equivalent for that would be R, not RStudio.
– Bryan Krause
4 hours ago
add a comment |
To follow on, if my PI and I collaborate on an R script, and I use RStudio and she uses emacs, should we cite both? It would seem wrong to cite emacs, so by extension, I see little reason to cite Rstudio.
– Azor Ahai
4 hours ago
@AzorAhai I agree that it is not typical to cite text editors, IDEs are a bit more involved but you don't typically cite those either. When someone cites something like Matlab or SAS or Stata, they aren't just citing the IDE and GUI but the underlying algorithms that have been tested, validated etc; the equivalent for that would be R, not RStudio.
– Bryan Krause
4 hours ago
To follow on, if my PI and I collaborate on an R script, and I use RStudio and she uses emacs, should we cite both? It would seem wrong to cite emacs, so by extension, I see little reason to cite Rstudio.
– Azor Ahai
4 hours ago
To follow on, if my PI and I collaborate on an R script, and I use RStudio and she uses emacs, should we cite both? It would seem wrong to cite emacs, so by extension, I see little reason to cite Rstudio.
– Azor Ahai
4 hours ago
@AzorAhai I agree that it is not typical to cite text editors, IDEs are a bit more involved but you don't typically cite those either. When someone cites something like Matlab or SAS or Stata, they aren't just citing the IDE and GUI but the underlying algorithms that have been tested, validated etc; the equivalent for that would be R, not RStudio.
– Bryan Krause
4 hours ago
@AzorAhai I agree that it is not typical to cite text editors, IDEs are a bit more involved but you don't typically cite those either. When someone cites something like Matlab or SAS or Stata, they aren't just citing the IDE and GUI but the underlying algorithms that have been tested, validated etc; the equivalent for that would be R, not RStudio.
– Bryan Krause
4 hours ago
add a comment |
Cite what you use. RStudio has a collection of developers who have made your work possible. Cite them. R is a language so it is, perhaps, less important to cite it. But if it has features that are important to your work, cite it. If you had used Python to do data analysis it might not be necessary to name it if there was nothing special about Python, but R is specialized for statistics so more likely that it should be cited.
Cite what you use. It is a courtesy to those who enable your work if nothing else. Citing RStudio
answered 8 hours ago
BuffyBuffy
48.7k13159243
What is the downside to citing RStudio? Why the downvotes for this excellent answer (as usual from @Buffy)?
– JeremyC
6 hours ago
2
@JeremyC Probably coming from the suggestion that citing R is less important and perhaps the misunderstanding that R is "just" a language whereas RStudio is what "made your work possible."
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
1
@JeremyC More carefully considered than that? I do agree that a comment would be useful to explain but I think disagreement with an entire answer is a suitable reason to downvote if someone thinks that following the answer would mislead the OP or others with a similar question.
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
3
I did not downvote this, but I 100% defend the right to downvote if one thinks that the content of an answer is wrong / unwise, without need for further comments.
– Federico Poloni
5 hours ago
2
@Buffy Have you used R? Your answer makes it sound like you have not.
– Azor Ahai
1 hour ago
|
show 5 more comments
Cite what you use. RStudio has a collection of developers who have made your work possible. Cite them. R is a language so it is, perhaps, less important to cite it. But if it has features that are important to your work, cite it. If you had used Python to do data analysis it might not be necessary to name it if there was nothing special about Python, but R is specialized for statistics so more likely that it should be cited.
Cite what you use. It is a courtesy to those who enable your work if nothing else. Citing RStudio
answered 8 hours ago
BuffyBuffy
48.7k13159243
What is the downside to citing RStudio? Why the downvotes for this excellent answer (as usual from @Buffy)?
– JeremyC
6 hours ago
2
@JeremyC Probably coming from the suggestion that citing R is less important and perhaps the misunderstanding that R is "just" a language whereas RStudio is what "made your work possible."
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
1
@JeremyC More carefully considered than that? I do agree that a comment would be useful to explain but I think disagreement with an entire answer is a suitable reason to downvote if someone thinks that following the answer would mislead the OP or others with a similar question.
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
3
I did not downvote this, but I 100% defend the right to downvote if one thinks that the content of an answer is wrong / unwise, without need for further comments.
– Federico Poloni
5 hours ago
2
@Buffy Have you used R? Your answer makes it sound like you have not.
– Azor Ahai
1 hour ago
|
show 5 more comments
Cite what you use. RStudio has a collection of developers who have made your work possible. Cite them. R is a language so it is, perhaps, less important to cite it. But if it has features that are important to your work, cite it. If you had used Python to do data analysis it might not be necessary to name it if there was nothing special about Python, but R is specialized for statistics so more likely that it should be cited.
Cite what you use. It is a courtesy to those who enable your work if nothing else. Citing RStudio
answered 8 hours ago
BuffyBuffy
48.7k13159243
Cite what you use. RStudio has a collection of developers who have made your work possible. Cite them. R is a language so it is, perhaps, less important to cite it. But if it has features that are important to your work, cite it. If you had used Python to do data analysis it might not be necessary to name it if there was nothing special about Python, but R is specialized for statistics so more likely that it should be cited.
Cite what you use. It is a courtesy to those who enable your work if nothing else. Citing RStudio
answered 8 hours ago
BuffyBuffy
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edited 7 hours ago
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answered 8 hours ago
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What is the downside to citing RStudio? Why the downvotes for this excellent answer (as usual from @Buffy)?
– JeremyC
6 hours ago
2
@JeremyC Probably coming from the suggestion that citing R is less important and perhaps the misunderstanding that R is "just" a language whereas RStudio is what "made your work possible."
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
1
@JeremyC More carefully considered than that? I do agree that a comment would be useful to explain but I think disagreement with an entire answer is a suitable reason to downvote if someone thinks that following the answer would mislead the OP or others with a similar question.
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
3
I did not downvote this, but I 100% defend the right to downvote if one thinks that the content of an answer is wrong / unwise, without need for further comments.
– Federico Poloni
5 hours ago
2
@Buffy Have you used R? Your answer makes it sound like you have not.
– Azor Ahai
1 hour ago
|
show 5 more comments
What is the downside to citing RStudio? Why the downvotes for this excellent answer (as usual from @Buffy)?
– JeremyC
6 hours ago
2
@JeremyC Probably coming from the suggestion that citing R is less important and perhaps the misunderstanding that R is "just" a language whereas RStudio is what "made your work possible."
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
1
@JeremyC More carefully considered than that? I do agree that a comment would be useful to explain but I think disagreement with an entire answer is a suitable reason to downvote if someone thinks that following the answer would mislead the OP or others with a similar question.
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
3
I did not downvote this, but I 100% defend the right to downvote if one thinks that the content of an answer is wrong / unwise, without need for further comments.
– Federico Poloni
5 hours ago
2
@Buffy Have you used R? Your answer makes it sound like you have not.
– Azor Ahai
1 hour ago
What is the downside to citing RStudio? Why the downvotes for this excellent answer (as usual from @Buffy)?
– JeremyC
6 hours ago
What is the downside to citing RStudio? Why the downvotes for this excellent answer (as usual from @Buffy)?
– JeremyC
6 hours ago
2
2
@JeremyC Probably coming from the suggestion that citing R is less important and perhaps the misunderstanding that R is "just" a language whereas RStudio is what "made your work possible."
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
@JeremyC Probably coming from the suggestion that citing R is less important and perhaps the misunderstanding that R is "just" a language whereas RStudio is what "made your work possible."
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
1
1
@JeremyC More carefully considered than that? I do agree that a comment would be useful to explain but I think disagreement with an entire answer is a suitable reason to downvote if someone thinks that following the answer would mislead the OP or others with a similar question.
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
@JeremyC More carefully considered than that? I do agree that a comment would be useful to explain but I think disagreement with an entire answer is a suitable reason to downvote if someone thinks that following the answer would mislead the OP or others with a similar question.
– Bryan Krause
6 hours ago
3
3
I did not downvote this, but I 100% defend the right to downvote if one thinks that the content of an answer is wrong / unwise, without need for further comments.
– Federico Poloni
5 hours ago
I did not downvote this, but I 100% defend the right to downvote if one thinks that the content of an answer is wrong / unwise, without need for further comments.
– Federico Poloni
5 hours ago
2
2
@Buffy Have you used R? Your answer makes it sound like you have not.
– Azor Ahai
1 hour ago
@Buffy Have you used R? Your answer makes it sound like you have not.
– Azor Ahai
1 hour ago
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I have never seen anyone cite Rstudio. It would be like citing Word
– Azor Ahai
7 hours ago