To cite package 'alineR' in publication please use:

Sean S. Downey, Guowei Sun, and Peter Norquest. (2017) alineR: an R Package for Optimizing Feature-Weighted Alignments and Linguistic Distances. The R Journal 9(1):138-152.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    author = {{Sean S. Downey} and {Guowei Sun} and {Peter Norquest}},
    title = {alineR: an R Package for Optimizing Feature-Weighted
      Alignments and Linguistic Distances},
    year = {2017},
    journal = {The R Journal},
    url =
      {https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-005/index.html},
    volume = {9},
    number = {1},
    pages = {138--152},
    note = {R Package Version 1.1.4},
  }