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Properly Cite R Base and R Packages

Amazing people have invested considerable energy into R and its associated packages. It is only proper you cite their work. This is easily done using citation() for Base and citation("PackageName") for a package.

# basic citation calls
  citation()  # basic R citation

## 
## To cite R in publications use:
## 
##   R Core Team (2015). R: A language and environment for
##   statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing,
##   Vienna, Austria. URL https://www.R-project.org/.
## 
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
## 
##   @Manual{,
##     title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing},
##     author = {{R Core Team}},
##     organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
##     address = {Vienna, Austria},
##     year = {2015},
##     url = {https://www.R-project.org/},
##   }
## 
## We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating R, please
## cite it when using it for data analysis. See also
## 'citation("pkgname")' for citing R packages.

  citation("reshape2")  # package reshape2 citation 

## 
## To cite reshape in publications use:
## 
##   Hadley Wickham (2007). Reshaping Data with the reshape Package.
##   Journal of Statistical Software, 21(12), 1-20. URL
##   http://www.jstatsoft.org/v21/i12/.
## 
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
## 
##   @Article{,
##     title = {Reshaping Data with the {reshape} Package},
##     author = {Hadley Wickham},
##     journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
##     year = {2007},
##     volume = {21},
##     number = {12},
##     pages = {1--20},
##     url = {http://www.jstatsoft.org/v21/i12/},
##   }

The calls return the preferred citation as well the BibTeX entry. Note: packages published in the Journal of Statistical Software provide excellent understanding of a package, often with great user-friendly example, and should be accessed read prior to using a package.

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