How to cite the R package rmarkdown
rmarkdown is a popular R package that is available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rmarkdown/index.html. By citing R packages in your paper you lay the grounds for others to be able to reproduce your analysis and secondly you are acknowledging the time and work people have spent creating the package.
APA citation
Formatted according to the APA Publication Manual 7th edition. Simply copy it to the References page as is.
The minimal requirement is to cite the R package in text along with the version number. Additionally, you can include the reference list entry the authors of the rmarkdown package have suggested.
Example of an in-text citation
Analysis of the data was done using the rmarkdown package (v2.7; Allaire et al., 2020).
Reference list entry
Allaire, J. J., Xie, Y., McPherson, J., Luraschi, J., Ushey, K., Atkins, A., Wickham, H., Cheng, J., Chang, W., & Iannone, R. (2020). rmarkdown: Dynamic Documents for R. https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown
Vancouver citation
Formatted according to Vancouver style. Simply copy it to the references section as is.
Example of an in-text citation
Analysis of the data was done using the rmarkdown package v2.7 (1).
Reference list entry
1.Allaire JJ, Xie Y, McPherson J, Luraschi J, Ushey K, Atkins A, et al. rmarkdown: Dynamic Documents for R [Internet]. 2020. Available from: https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown
BibTeX
Reference entry in BibTeX format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.
@MISC{Allaire2020-sr,
title = "rmarkdown: Dynamic Documents for {R}",
author = "Allaire, J J and Xie, Yihui and McPherson, Jonathan and Luraschi,
Javier and Ushey, Kevin and Atkins, Aron and Wickham, Hadley and
Cheng, Joe and Chang, Winston and Iannone, Richard",
year = 2020,
url = "https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown"
}
RIS
Reference entry in RIS format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.
TY - MISC AU - Allaire, J J AU - Xie, Yihui AU - McPherson, Jonathan AU - Luraschi, Javier AU - Ushey, Kevin AU - Atkins, Aron AU - Wickham, Hadley AU - Cheng, Joe AU - Chang, Winston AU - Iannone, Richard TI - rmarkdown: Dynamic Documents for R PY - 2020 DA - 2020 UR - https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown ER -
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rmarkdown R package release history
| Version | Release date |
|---|---|
| 2.6 | 2020-12-14 |
| 2.5 | 2020-10-21 |
| 2.4 | 2020-09-30 |
| 2.3 | 2020-06-18 |
| 2.2 | 2020-05-31 |
| 2.1 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2.0 | 2019-12-12 |
| 1.18 | 2019-11-27 |
| 1.17 | 2019-11-13 |
| 1.16 | 2019-10-01 |
| 1.15 | 2019-08-21 |
| 1.14 | 2019-07-12 |
| 1.13 | 2019-05-23 |
| 1.12 | 2019-03-14 |
| 1.11 | 2018-12-08 |
| 1.10 | 2018-06-11 |
| 1.9 | 2018-03-01 |
| 1.8 | 2017-11-17 |
| 1.7 | 2017-11-10 |
| 1.6 | 2017-06-15 |
| 1.5 | 2017-04-26 |
| 1.4 | 2017-03-24 |
| 1.3 | 2016-12-21 |
| 1.2 | 2016-11-21 |
| 1.1 | 2016-10-16 |
| 1.0 | 2016-07-08 |
| 0.9.6 | 2016-05-01 |
| 0.9.5 | 2016-02-22 |
| 0.9.2 | 2016-01-01 |
| 0.9.1 | 2015-12-31 |
| 0.9 | 2015-12-22 |
| 0.8.1 | 2015-10-10 |
| 0.8 | 2015-08-30 |
| 0.7 | 2015-06-13 |
| 0.6.1 | 2015-05-07 |
| 0.5.1 | 2015-01-26 |
| 0.4.2 | 2014-12-22 |
| 0.3.3 | 2014-09-17 |