I was wondering if Julia had something similar to R’s citation() function with which you can easily get “metadata” about a package, such as its version, authors, title and so on, as well as a bib entry. Also, I’m curious if it would be feasible (and a good idea) to automatically generate a DOI for …

Citation method to cite packages?

Tero_Frondelius August 28, 2018, 5:22pm 3

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