Unfortunately you need to publish a paper not just a package to get credit, although times are changing!

One option is software journals: - The R Journal - Journal of Statistical Software - Journal of Computational and Graphical Statitics - Journal of Open Source Software

These are all options, and they have different formats and requirements.

The papers are basically a well-polished, extended vingette

• worked through examples, data should be be included in the package
• give examples of all functions in the package and discuss options
• discuss details of implementation

pseval paper

Actually has a pretty high impact factor!

• More academic than The R J
• Interesting or well-written vignettes are perfect
• More focus on the methodology

plotROC paper

Old school stats journal

• Part of the AMSTAT family
• Focus is on the statistical/computational method
• Having a R package is just a bonus

New kid on the block

• Focus is on the software, not the paper
• Short vignettes, extended descriptions
• Peer-review main focus is on the package itself, quality of documentation and code structure

• Write an application, practice or case study paper
• Using your package for a interesting dataset or scientific problem
• Submit to a regular journal in your field

Many of the epidemiology journals will gladly accept descriptions of statistical software

Self-publish!

usethis::use_pkgdown()

If you have a nice README.md, and vignettes as html files, it is trivial to turn it into a nice-looking webpage.

If you do publish, make sure users know how to cite you:

usethis::use_citation()

Then people can find the citation using

citation("packagename")