ability to change the language of the sentence

[JensBoelte]

Hello

I wonder if it is possible to change the language of the paragraph: "We used R version 4.4.2 ([R Core Team, 2024]) and the following R packages". I would like to use this library in one of my research courses. However, the students write their papers in German and not in English. I know it is not much to translate, but the ability to change this sentence would be great. In German the sentence could be: Wir verwendeten R Version 4.4.2 ([R Core Team, 2024]) und die folgenden R-Pakete“.

Best wishes Jens

[Pakillo]

Hi @JensBoelte

Thanks for the suggestion. It shouldn't be too difficult to add support for different languages, at least for a few of them (English, German, French, Spanish...)

Is there a passive voice in German? If so, I'd need the sentence both in active and passive voice. Thanks

[JensBoelte]

Hello,

In German there is active and passive voice. If you want to keep the statement short and to the point, an active version could be written as follows:
Wir verwendeten die R Version 4.4.2 ([R Core Team, 2024]) und die folgenden R-Pakete:

In passive voice:
Es wurden die Version 4.4.2 von R ([R Core Team, 2024]) und die folgenden R-Pakete verwendet

Best wishes and thanks a lot for your work.

Jens

[Pakillo]

Hi @JensBoelte

Thanks for your patience. Your suggestion is now implemented in grateful v. 0.3.0. Please re-install from GitHub or R-Universe and let me know how it works.

Rather than implementing different languages (German, Spanish, etc), I've added three new arguments to cite_packages (text.start, text.pks and text.RStudio) which enable customising the language of the citation paragraph.

For example:

cite_packages(output = "paragraph", out.dir = ".", 
              text.start = "Wir verwendeten die",
              text.pkgs = "und die folgenden R-Pakete")

"Wir verwendeten die R version 4.5.1 [@base] und die folgenden R-Pakete: badger v. 0.2.5 [@badger], desc v. 1.4.3 [@desc], knitr v. 1.50 [@knitr2014; @knitr2015; @knitr2025], mgcv v. 1.9.3 [@mgcv2003; @mgcv2004; @mgcv2011; @mgcv2016; @mgcv2017], pkgdown v. 2.1.3 [@pkgdown], remotes v. 2.5.0 [@remotes], renv v. 1.1.5 [@renv], rmarkdown v. 2.29 [@rmarkdown2018; @rmarkdown2020; @rmarkdown2024], testthat v. 3.2.3 [@testthat], tidyverse v. 2.0.0 [@tidyverse], visreg v. 2.7.0 [@visreg]."

I hope this will allow anyone to adapt grateful output to their language needs.

Cheers