An R package for clustering longitudinal datasets in a standardized way, providing interfaces to various R packages for longitudinal clustering, and facilitating the rapid implementation and evaluation of new methods
When users use a method that depends on an external cluster package, we would like to see them cite not just the latrend package, but also, and especially, the underlying package (e.g., kml).
Although each of the package-dependent methods have proper citations in the documentation, I think a more active approach is needed to convey to the user that they are using an underlying package.
Proposal:
When a package-dependent method is used with latrend(), output a message with the citation instructions. This message can be disabled through a package-specific option, such as options(latrend.cite.kml = FALSE).
When users use a method that depends on an external cluster package, we would like to see them cite not just the latrend package, but also, and especially, the underlying package (e.g., kml).
Although each of the package-dependent methods have proper citations in the documentation, I think a more active approach is needed to convey to the user that they are using an underlying package.
Proposal: When a package-dependent method is used with
latrend(), output a message with the citation instructions. This message can be disabled through a package-specific option, such asoptions(latrend.cite.kml = FALSE).