When GitHub announced support for CITATION.cff files I though of creating a package that would assist R developers in this matter. I was already using codemetar for most of my packages, so I was familiar with the creation of these kind of metadata files.

I borrowed some ideas from codemetar, although I decided to create most of my code from scratch (I enjoy challenging myself, and there is no better way of learning). Finally, the first working version of cffr was released on September 15, 2021.

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cffr, a package for creating valid CITATION.cff files using the metadata of any R package.

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