How to cite the R package mlr3

mlr3 is a popular R package that is available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mlr3/index.html. By citing R packages in your paper you lay the grounds for others to be able to reproduce your analysis and secondly you are acknowledging the time and work people have spent creating the package.

APA citation

Formatted according to the APA Publication Manual 7^th edition. Simply copy it to the References page as is.

APA

The minimal requirement is to cite the R package in text along with the version number. Additionally, you can include the reference list entry the authors of the mlr3 package have suggested.

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the mlr3 package (v0.10.0; Lang et al., 2019).

Reference list entry

Lang, M., Binder, M., Richter, J., Schratz, P., Pfisterer, F., Coors, S., Au, Q., Casalicchio, G., Kotthoff, L., & Bischl, B. (2019). mlr3: A modern object-oriented machine learning framework in R. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(44), 1903.

Vancouver citation

Formatted according to Vancouver style. Simply copy it to the references section as is.

Vancouver

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the mlr3 package v0.10.0 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Lang M, Binder M, Richter J, Schratz P, Pfisterer F, Coors S, et al. mlr3: A modern object-oriented machine learning framework in R. J Open Source Softw. 2019 Dec 11;4(44):1903.

BibTeX

Reference entry in BibTeX format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{Lang2019-yh,
  title     = "mlr3: A modern object-oriented machine learning framework in {R}",
  author    = "Lang, Michel and Binder, Martin and Richter, Jakob and Schratz,
               Patrick and Pfisterer, Florian and Coors, Stefan and Au, Quay
               and Casalicchio, Giuseppe and Kotthoff, Lars and Bischl, Bernd",
  journal   = "J. Open Source Softw.",
  publisher = "The Open Journal",
  volume    =  4,
  number    =  44,
  pages     = "1903",
  month     =  dec,
  year      =  2019,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.01903",
  copyright = "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  issn      = "2475-9066",
  doi       = "10.21105/joss.01903"
}

RIS

Reference entry in RIS format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lang, Michel
AU  - Binder, Martin
AU  - Richter, Jakob
AU  - Schratz, Patrick
AU  - Pfisterer, Florian
AU  - Coors, Stefan
AU  - Au, Quay
AU  - Casalicchio, Giuseppe
AU  - Kotthoff, Lars
AU  - Bischl, Bernd
TI  - mlr3: A modern object-oriented machine learning framework in R
T2  - J. Open Source Softw.
VL  - 4
IS  - 44
SP  - 1903
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/12/11
PB  - The Open Journal
SN  - 2475-9066
DO  - 10.21105/joss.01903
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.01903
ER  -

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mlr3 R package release history

Version	Release date
0.9.0	2020-12-06
0.8.0	2020-10-21
0.7.0	2020-10-07
0.6.0	2020-09-13
0.5.0	2020-08-07
0.4.0	2020-07-22
0.3.0	2020-06-02
0.2.0	2020-04-17
0.1.8	2020-03-10
0.1.7	2020-02-23
0.1.6	2019-12-19
0.1.5	2019-12-10
0.1.4	2019-10-29
0.1.3	2019-09-18
0.1.2	2019-08-26
0.1.1	2019-07-25