We are happy to announce that we can finally answer the question on how to cite mlr properly in publications.
Our paper on mlr has been published in the open-access Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) and can be downloaded on the journal home page.
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The paper gives a brief overview of the features of mlr and also includes a comparison with similar toolkits. For an in-depth understanding we still recommend our excellent online mlr tutorial which is now also available as a PDF on arxiv.org or as zipped HTML files for offline reading.
Once mlr 2.10 hits CRAN you can retrieve the citation information from within R:
citation("mlr")##
## Bischl B, Lang M, Kotthoff L, Schiffner J, Richter J, Studerus
## E, Casalicchio G and Jones Z (2016). "mlr: Machine Learning in
## R." _Journal of Machine Learning Research_, *17*(170), pp.
## 1-5. <URL: http://jmlr.org/papers/v17/15-066.html>.
##
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
##
## @Article{mlr,
## title = {{mlr}: Machine Learning in R},
## author = {Bernd Bischl and Michel Lang and Lars Kotthoff and Julia Schiffner and Jakob Richter and Erich Studerus and Giuseppe Casalicchio and Zachary M. Jones},
## journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
## year = {2016},
## volume = {17},
## number = {170},
## pages = {1-5},
## url = {http://jmlr.org/papers/v17/15-066.html},
## }
##