If you need to cite R, there is a very useful function called citation()
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> citation() To cite R in publications use: 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/. A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Manual{, title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing}, author = {{R Core Team}}, organization = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.R-project.org/}, } We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating R, please cite it when using it for data analysis. See also ‘citation("pkgname")’ for citing R packages.
If you want to cite just a package, just pass the package name as a parameter, e.g.:
> citation(package = "cluster") To cite the R package 'cluster' in publications use: Maechler, M., Rousseeuw, P., Struyf, A., Hubert, M., Hornik, K.(2013). cluster: Cluster Analysis Basics and Extensions. R package version 1.14.4. A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Manual{, title = {cluster: Cluster Analysis Basics and Extensions}, author = {Martin Maechler and Peter Rousseeuw and Anja Struyf and Mia Hubert and Kurt Hornik}, year = {2013}, note = {R package version 1.14.4 --- For new features, see the 'Changelog' file (in the package source)}, }
This will give you BibTeX entries you can copy and paste in your BibTeX reference. If you are using M$ Word, good luck to you.