The Citation page generated by pkgdown year the site was last built, not the year the package was published. So an unrelated rebuild (e.g., a README edit or a CI config change) silently changes the citation year on the live site - even though no new version was released and the package's actual publication date hasn't changed.
For a package already on CRAN, the publication year is a known (visible on the CRAN package page). Overwriting it with the current build year produces an incorrect citation.
Hope this helps! Thank you
The Citation page generated by pkgdown year the site was last built, not the year the package was published. So an unrelated rebuild (e.g., a README edit or a CI config change) silently changes the citation year on the live site - even though no new version was released and the package's actual publication date hasn't changed.
For a package already on CRAN, the publication year is a known (visible on the CRAN package page). Overwriting it with the current build year produces an incorrect citation.
Hope this helps! Thank you