[pkg-bioc] CVS %p

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

(Resending, failed to use group reply at first... --Dirk)

On 22 May 2007 at 16:18, Daniel Bayer wrote:
| Hello Dirk,
| 
| Am Dienstag 22 Mai 2007 13:19 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
| > On 22 May 2007 at 09:27, CVS User db-guest wrote:
| > | Update of /cvsroot/pkg-bioc/papers/nettab2007
| > | In directory alioth:/tmp/cvs-serv30179
| > |
| > | Modified Files:
| > | 	bioc.pdf bioc.tex
| > | Log Message:
| > | The Conference is on Semantic Web. So we don't have to cite the
| > | wikipedia for RDF. And for ARC we are already citing the paper
| > | [8]
| >
| > Well I can't resist being pedantic here. Having a definition never
| > hurts, and aiming at only a narrow set of specialists may not be
| > good.  There may well be people finding / reading the paper who
| > come from 'R at large' who think ARC is a stats program [ if memory
| > serves, there ones was one.
| 
| Well, mostly I don't like citing Wikipedia for no good reason. I 

"No good reason" ?  How about defining a technical term and acronym used in
the paper?  I can't think of many better reason.

| assume every interested reader of the article is able to do such a 
| search on his own. With the last commit a Abbreviations-Section was 

By that logic we should save a tree and delete the reference section too. 

| added on the first page. I think this serves the purpose. Are you 
| fine with this solution?

Not really, but it's a multi-author paper so I'll be overvoted

D.

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