R “stats” citation for a scientific paper

Question

I analyzed my data using R package ‘stats’ (version 2.15.3). A reviewer asked me the right citation of this package and not only the common

R Core Team (2012). R

Answer 1

There is now a grateful package that can be handy:

The goal of grateful is to make it very easy to cite the R packages used in any report or publication. By calling a single function, it will scan the project for R packages used and generate a document with citations in the desired output format (Word, PDF, HTML, Markdown). Importantly, these references can be formatted for a specific journal so that we can just paste them directly into the bibliography list of our manuscript or report.

https://github.com/Pakillo/grateful

If the package stats is loaded, the reference can be obtained by running:

library(grateful)
cite_packages()

—assuming grateful has already been installed by running:

library(devtools)
install_github("Pakillo/grateful")