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>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @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},
  }