[NEW SUBMISSION] R

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Citation information

"R": {
    "tags": [
        ""
    ],
    "logo": "img/R.png",
    "language": "R",
    "category": "Statistics",
    "keywords": [
        "r"
    ],
    "description": "The R statistical programming language.",
    "link": "https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html",
    "attribution_link": "https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Citing-R",
    "zenodo_doi": "",
    "custom_citation": "",
    "dependencies": []
}

BibTeX

@Manual{,
  title        = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical
                  Computing},
  author       = {{R Core Team}},
  organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
  address      = {Vienna, Austria},
  year         = 2024,
  url          = {https://www.R-project.org}
}

[FloorBroekgaarden]

added! before closing I have to figure out two small items

• the website says to change the "year" into year of R that user is using (see https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Citing-R) - this is probably not the best method in the long-term - as it might not cumulate the citations. I will reach out to R and ADS to ask what is best going forward..

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Thanks @FloorBroekgaarden

As with Python there are a bunch of packages for R (see CRAN, 20889 as of posting) and many packages include a inst/CITATION file which gives the citation format in BibTeX.

I'm wondering if leveraging this might be possible to automatically add citations to the Software Citation Station in an automated manner? It would be a lot of work to manually submit issues and review them.

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Something that changed recently with CRAN is that they started adding Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to each package.

E.g. 10.32614/CRAN.package.dplyr

Checked a few and they all seem to use the 10.32614/CRAN.package.<pkg_name> format so perhaps this might be possible to parse and include in the citation information of R packages if they were to be included (I realise this is no small task!).