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Description
Summary:
R-produced citation for rstan lists the package version as 2.14.1
Description:
When requesting the citation for rstan ("citation('rstan')"), the resulting citation is for rstan version 2.14.1
Reproducible Steps:
citation('rstan')
Current Output:
> citation('rstan')
To cite RStan in publications use:
Stan Development Team (2016). RStan: the R interface to Stan. R package version 2.14.1. http://mc-stan.org/.
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Misc{,
title = {{RStan}: the {R} interface to {Stan}},
author = {{Stan Development Team}},
note = {R package version 2.14.1},
year = {2016},
url = {http://mc-stan.org/},
}
Expected Output:
To cite RStan in publications use:
Stan Development Team (2017). RStan: the R interface to Stan. R package version 2.16.2. http://mc-stan.org/.
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Misc{,
title = {{RStan}: the {R} interface to {Stan}},
author = {{Stan Development Team}},
note = {R package version 2.16.2},
year = {2017},
url = {http://mc-stan.org/},
}
RStan Version:
> packageVersion("rstan")
[1] ‘2.16.2’
R Version:
> R.version.string
[1] "R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)"
Operating System:
Ubuntu 16.10
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Research direction
Run citation('rstan') and compare the generated citation with the packageVersion("rstan") output and the expected 2.16.2 citation in the issue. Find the package metadata or citation source that still reports version 2.14.1, update it to the expected version and year, then verify the command produces the corrected text.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Clearly specified
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