From a82f53b59faa410bb76853ac4637c99cbbdfecdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael McCarthy <51542091+mccarthy-m-g@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2024 02:26:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] add GitHub CITATION file

---
 .Rbuildignore |  1 +
 CITATION.cff  | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CITATION.cff

diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index bcc1d64..f8cb2e8 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@
 ^CRAN-SUBMISSION$
 ^revdep$
 ^vignettes/articles$
+^CITATION\.cff$
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f73d046
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: 'To cite package "palettes" in publications use:'
+type: software
+license: MIT
+title: 'palettes: Methods for Colour Vectors and Colour Palettes'
+abstract: 'Provides a comprehensive library for colour vectors and colour palettes
+  using a new family of colour classes (palettes_colour and palettes_palette) that
+  always print as hex codes with colour previews. Capabilities include: formatting,
+  casting and coercion, extraction and updating of components, plotting, colour mixing
+  arithmetic, and colour interpolation.'
+authors:
+- family-names: McCarthy
+  given-names: Michael
+repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=palettes
+repository-code: https://github.com/mccarthy-m-g/palettes
+url: https://mccarthy-m-g.github.io/palettes/
+version: 0.1.1
+date-released: 2023-01-12