Hi all:

I have had recent issues with citing a package(s) in journals. I have a
package that has been cited as the Documentation and accepted into
journals, but I just had a problem with the lme4 package. We are citing the
submitted paper instead of the documentation. In other words, the citation
from the citation function was not acceptable to the editor.

Experiences? Thoughts for a solution? Are there standard ways of doing this?

Maybe the R Foundation could publish a manual of which all package
documentation is a sub-publication kind of like an edited book?

I just am trying to make sure that everyone that makes the R ecosystem so
useful gets attribution for their work.

Many thanks to everyone involved.

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Stephen Sefick
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