[R] How to make reference to R in the method section in a scientific article?

[John Kane]

The recommended citation can be found with 
citation()

How exactly you cite it in the text is dependent upon
what the target journal's style manual says.  I'm no
expert but the information you have given in the text
below looks quite adequate.

--- Falco tinnunculus <kestrel78 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> How do I make reference to R in the method section
> in a scientific article?
> Should I state the web aderess?
> 
> And, is this the proper way to report the lme test?
> 
> 
> "The relationships were assumed to be linear. The
> response, handling time
> and the explanatory variable, prey mass, were log
> transformed to obtain
> normal error distributions. The lme function of the
> nlme package for R was
> used to fit linear mixed-effects (LME) models, using
> restricted maximum
> likelihood (REML). Model selection were computed by
> using the Akaike
> Information Criteria (AIC). The overall test of the
> model was conducted with
> ANOVA."
> 
> 
> 
> Regards Kes
> 
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> 
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