How do I tell which R packages to cite in my paper?

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The question of R "stats" citation for a scientific paper makes me wonder how I would enumerate all the R packages that I ought to cite when using R in an academic paper. How would I get a list of packages that I loaded and need citation?

See this answer about `grateful` package https://stackoverflow.com/a/46781771/7886302 — tlask, Apr 25 '20 at 07:27

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Using the answer to How to find out which package version is loaded in R? , I see that we can use the sessionInfo() function to see what packages have been loaded (though not necessarily used).

The following gets the base packages as a vector and concatenates it with the names of the loaded packages. Then we apply the citation function to each.

packages_in_use <- c( sessionInfo()$basePkgs, names( sessionInfo()$loadedOnly ) )
the_citations_list <- lapply( X=packages_in_use, FUN=citation)
the_citations_list

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Dec 17 '14 at 21:59

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A blanket **R** citation with the version number should be sufficient for the base packages. But if you used specific, non-base, packages, you could cite them as above. – alexwhitworth Dec 18 '14 at 03:02

How do I tell which R packages to cite in my paper?

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