How to find the name of the author of a package in R?

There can be multiple authors of a package in R and we might want to use their name if we are using their package in our publication for research, books, courses or any other type of content. Therefore, it is required to find out all the authors who contributed to a particular package and this can be done by using citation function with package name as shown in the below examples.

Example

citation("ggplot2")

To cite ggplot2 in publications, please use −

H. Wickham. ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. Springer-Verlag New York, 2016.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Book{,
   author = {Hadley Wickham},
   title = {ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis},
   publisher = {Springer-Verlag New York}, year = {2016},
   isbn = {978-3-319-24277-4},
   url = {https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org},
}

Example

citation("dplyr")

To cite package ‘dplyr’ in publications use −

Hadley Wickham, Romain François, Lionel Henry and Kirill Müller (2020). dplyr: A Grammar of Data Manipulation. R package version 1.0.2. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dplyr

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Manual{
   , title = {dplyr: A Grammar of Data Manipulation},
   author = {Hadley Wickham and Romain François and Lionel
   { Henry} and Kirill Müller}, year = {2020},
   note = {R package version 1.0.2},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dplyr},
}

Example

citation("data.table")

To cite package ‘data.table’ in publications use −

Matt Dowle and Arun Srinivasan (2020). data.table: Extension of `data.frame`. R package version 1.13.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=data.table

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Manual{,
   title = {data.table: Extension of `data.frame`},
   author = {Matt Dowle and Arun Srinivasan}, year =    
   {2020}, note = {R package version 1.13.0},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=data.table},
}

Example

citation("plotrix")

To cite package 'plotrix' in publications use −

Lemon, J. (2006) Plotrix: a package in the red light district of R. R-News, 6(4): 8-12.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Article{,
   year = {2006},
    title = {Plotrix: a package in the red light district of R},
   journal = {R-News}, v
   olume = {6}, number = {4},
   pages = {8-12}, author = {Lemon J},
}

Example

citation("MASS")

To cite the MASS package in publications use −

Venables, W. N. & Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth Edition. Springer, New York. ISBN 0-387-95457-0

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Book{, title = {Modern Applied Statistics with S}, author = {W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley}, publisher = {Springer}, edition = {Fourth}, address = {New York}, year = {2002}, note = {ISBN 0-387-95457-0}, url = {http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4}, }

Example

citation("e1071")

To cite package ‘e1071’ in publications use −

David Meyer, Evgenia Dimitriadou, Kurt Hornik, Andreas Weingessel and Friedrich Leisch (2019). e1071: Misc Functions of the Department of Statistics, Probability Theory Group (Formerly: E1071), TU Wien. R package version 1.7-3. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=e1071

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Manual{,
    title = {e1071: Misc Functions of the Department of Statistics, Probability Theory Group (Formerly:    E1071), TU Wien},
   author = {David Meyer and Evgenia Dimitriadou and Kurt Hornik and Andreas Weingessel and Friedrich    Leisch}, year = {2019},
   note = {R package version 1.7-3},
   url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=e1071},
}

Example

citation("Matrix")

To cite package ‘Matrix’ in publications use −

Douglas Bates and Martin Maechler (2019). Matrix: Sparse and Dense Matrix Classes and Methods. R package version 1.2-18. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Matrix

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Manual{,
   title = {Matrix: Sparse and Dense Matrix Classes and Methods},
   author = {Douglas Bates and Martin Maechler},
   year = {2019}, note = {R package version 1.2-18},
   url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Matrix},
}

Example

citation("primes")

To cite package ‘primes’ in publications use −

Os Keyes and Paul Egeler (2020). primes: Fast Functions for Prime Numbers. R package version 1.1.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=primes

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Manual{
   , title = {primes: Fast Functions for Prime Numbers},
    author = {Os Keyes and Paul Egeler},
   year = {2020}, note = {R package version 1.1.0},
   url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=primes},
}