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Makes citation guidance for fmcmc hard to miss, and corrects the citation metadata.

Motivation: the package has far more users than citations, and the usual reason is that people cannot find what to cite. Every change below is aimed at that gap.

inst/CITATION

  • Dropped the redundant legacy entry = argument.
  • Added the CRAN DOI 10.32614/CRAN.package.fmcmc to the package entry (CRAN began minting these in 2024).
  • The year is now resolved from Date/PublicationDate → current year, so the entry cannot render as (????).

Documentation

  • README: a > [!NOTE] "How to cite" callout near the top. Both the source (.qmd/.Rmd) and the rendered README.md are updated; the block is static markdown, so no re-render was required.
  • Vignettes (3): a short citation callout under the front matter (Quarto .callout-note in .qmd, a blockquote in .Rmd).
  • Startup message: a one-line packageStartupMessage on attach pointing at citation("fmcmc"). It is suppressible in the normal way and does not fire on ::.

Verification

  • utils::readCitationFile() parses the new file against the package DESCRIPTION, and the rendered entries were inspected.
  • All R/*.R files still parse() and all man/*.Rd still pass tools::parse_Rd().
  • Every DOI referenced here was checked to resolve; volumes, issues and pages were verified against CrossRef.

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- Dropped the redundant legacy `entry = ` argument.

Adds a How to cite note to the README, vignettes and ?fmcmc, plus a startup message, and adds the CRAN DOI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview

This PR makes citation guidance for the fmcmc R package much more visible to end users by adding “How to cite” callouts in the README and vignettes, and by updating inst/CITATION metadata to be more complete and robust.

Changes:

  • Adds prominent “How to cite” callouts to the README (source and rendered) and to 3 vignettes.
  • Adds an attach-time startup message pointing users to citation("fmcmc").
  • Updates inst/CITATION entries (adds CRAN DOI for the package, refines citation fields, and resolves the year more defensively).

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vignettes/workflow-with-fmcmc.Rmd Adds a short “How to cite” callout near the top of the vignette.
vignettes/user-defined-kernels.Rmd Adds a short “How to cite” callout near the top of the vignette.
vignettes/advanced-features.Rmd Adds a short “How to cite” callout near the top of the vignette.
README.qmd Adds a prominent “How to cite” NOTE callout near the top of the README source.
README.md Adds the rendered “How to cite” NOTE callout near the top of the README.
R/zzz.R Introduces a package attach hook that emits a citation startup message.
inst/CITATION Updates citation entries and adds year resolution fallback logic.

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Comment thread R/zzz.R
Comment on lines +1 to +5
.onAttach <- function(libname, pkgname) {
packageStartupMessage(
"Using fmcmc in your research? Please cite it: citation(\"fmcmc\")"
)
}
Comment thread inst/CITATION
Comment on lines +4 to +10
year <- if (!is.null(meta$`Date/Publication`)) {
substr(meta$`Date/Publication`, 1, 4)
} else if (!is.null(meta$Date)) {
substr(meta$Date, 1, 4)
} else {
format(Sys.Date(), "%Y")
}
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