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    $\begingroup$ +1 for me. This frustrates me, especially when they cite the wrong thing and I've provided the relevant details on how to cite the packages $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 20, 2010 at 19:36
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    $\begingroup$ Question: when citing a package, do you cite the vignette (if one exists) or the package itself? $\endgroup$ Commented Nov 24, 2010 at 6:55
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    $\begingroup$ @Brandon: if the package author cares enough to guide you, then they have given the answer in a form that will be picked up by citation("some_package") $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 14, 2010 at 15:38
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    $\begingroup$ Aside from having a landmark paper, which is not so easy to do, the easiest way to get citations is to leave at least one error in your paper. Then you can publish a correction, which cites the original paper. Leave an error in the correction, and you can publish a correction which references the original correction and the original paper (I saw such a thing as a 1st year grad student). The number of citations grows as an O(N^2) process, where N is the number of corrections. $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 6, 2015 at 21:25