To cite package ‘polars’ in publications use:

Shima T, Bacher E, Authors of the dependency Rust crates (2026). polars: R Bindings for the 'polars' Rust Library. R package version 1.8.0, https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Manual{,
    title = {polars: R Bindings for the 'polars' Rust Library},
    author = {Tatsuya Shima and Etienne Bacher and {Authors of the
      dependency Rust crates}},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 1.8.0},
    url = {https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars},
  }