To cite package ‘knitr’ in publications use:

  Xie Y (2024). _knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report
  Generation in R_. R package version 1.48.1,
  <https://yihui.org/knitr/>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R},
    author = {Yihui Xie},
    year = {2024},
    note = {R package version 1.48.1},
    url = {https://yihui.org/knitr/},
  }

  Yihui Xie (2015) Dynamic Documents with R and knitr. 2nd edition.
  Chapman and Hall/CRC. ISBN 978-1498716963

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Book{,
    title = {Dynamic Documents with {R} and knitr},
    author = {Yihui Xie},
    publisher = {Chapman and Hall/CRC},
    address = {Boca Raton, Florida},
    year = {2015},
    edition = {2nd},
    note = {ISBN 978-1498716963},
    url = {https://yihui.org/knitr/},
  }

  Yihui Xie (2014) knitr: A Comprehensive Tool for Reproducible
  Research in R. In Victoria Stodden, Friedrich Leisch and Roger D.
  Peng, editors, Implementing Reproducible Computational Research.
  Chapman and Hall/CRC. ISBN 978-1466561595

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @InCollection{,
    booktitle = {Implementing Reproducible Computational Research},
    editor = {Victoria Stodden and Friedrich Leisch and Roger D. Peng},
    title = {knitr: A Comprehensive Tool for Reproducible Research in {R}},
    author = {Yihui Xie},
    publisher = {Chapman and Hall/CRC},
    year = {2014},
    note = {ISBN 978-1466561595},
  }