From ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de  Fri Dec 30 09:37:46 2005
From: ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:37:46 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Acknowledgments in package documentation
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Jeff Enos wrote:

> R-devel,
> 
> I've received permission from a third party to incorporate some of
> their data in a data set in my 'portfolio' package.  I'd like to
> include an acknowledgment of the third party, and perhaps a "used with
> permission" somewhere in the package documentation.
> 
> Where's the best spot in the package docs for such an acknowledgment?
> Is there a place preferable to the \description or \source sections of
> the data set's .Rd file?

No, that's perfect.

If for the data a special license applies different from the rest of the 
package, document it in thge License field of DESCRIPTION. You may also 
mention the other "author" in the DESCRIPTION file. All details on the 
author should go into the corresponding Rd file.

Uwe Ligges

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jeff
> 
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[Rd] Acknowledgments in package documentation
Uwe Ligges