Citng packages and dependencies

[Tereza]

Hi,

I have a question that is hopefully relevant to many of us.

I am citing R packages in a manuscript and wonder, whether I should also cite dependent packages.

For example, I am citing dismo but should I also independently cite raster and sp as packages required by dismo?

Similarly, I am citing maptools because I am using their wrld_simpl to plot ENMs but what about rgeos which is a required package for maptools.

And finally, when I use (and cite) ENMeval, do I also cite rJava?

There is probably not a straightforward answer but any insight will be very appreciated.

Thanks, Tereza

[Jamie M. Kass]

I have never seen dependencies cited before. I don't think that's commonplace.

-Jamie