Citing pilotr
If you use pilotr in published work, please cite it.
Bernabeu, P. (2026). pilotr: Simulate experimental and behavioural data from a portable design specification (R and Python package version 0.2.1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21266313
@software{bernabeu2026pilotr,
author = {Pablo Bernabeu},
title = {{pilotr}: Simulate experimental and behavioural data from a portable design specification},
year = {2026},
version = {0.2.1},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.21266313},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21266313},
}In R, citation("pilotr") returns the same reference.
The developer
pilotr is developed by Pablo Bernabeu, a researcher in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. His work spans cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, education and research methods, with hands-on experience of behavioural experiments, EEG, corpus analysis, computational modelling and statistics. He develops open, reproducible research software in R and Python, and is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute. His ORCID record lists his other work. pilotr and its Python twin are part of that work, keeping a design specification reproducible and its simulated data identical across both languages.
Licence
pilotr is released under the MIT licence. The licence covers the R and Python packages, the no-code app and the design specification alike.
Versioning and archival
Releases are tagged on GitHub and archived on Zenodo. The concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21266313 always resolves to the latest archived version, so a citation stays current without naming a version. The changelog records what changed in each release.
Contributing and support
Bugs and feature requests are best raised on the GitHub issues page. The contributing guide describes the development setup and the conventions the repository follows, including the cross-language random-number contract that any change to the generative core must keep intact.