To cite in publications use:

Michael Hahsler, Bettina Gruen and Kurt Hornik (2011). arules: Mining Association Rules and Frequent Itemsets. R package version 1.0-7.

Michael Hahsler, Bettina Gruen and Kurt Hornik (2005), arules -- A Computational Environment for Mining Association Rules and Frequent Item Sets. Journal of Statistical Software 14/15. URL: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v14/i15/.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {arules: Mining Association Rules and Frequent Itemsets},
    author = {Michael Hahsler and Christian Buchta and Bettina Gruen
      and Kurt Hornik},
    year = {2011},
    note = {R package version 1.0-7.},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {arules -- {A} Computational Environment for Mining
      Association Rules and Frequent Item Sets},
    author = {Michael Hahsler and Bettina Gruen and Kurt Hornik},
    year = {2005},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    volume = {14},
    number = {15},
    pages = {1--25},
    url = {http://www.jstatsoft.org/v14/i15/},
    month = {October},
    issn = {1548-7660},
  }