How to Reference or Cite R

You're an academic, sitting on the shoulder of giants, and small regular folks who worked hard. Cite their work!

In your references, you will need to cite (thank) the R team, as well as any package authors for packages that you used.

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Cite R:

R Core Team (2013). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL http://www.R-project.org/.

Ask R how the package authors want to be cited by asking R:

To cite the R package 'cluster' in publications use:

> citation(package = "cluster") Maechler, M., Rousseeuw, P., Struyf, A., Hubert, M., Hornik, K.(2013). cluster: Cluster Analysis Basics and Extensions. R package version 1.14.4.

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