From 4dcce5ba1e34302838fa465ab6e91e2de6492beb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Funk <sebastian.funk@lshtm.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 07:30:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] 1.5.2 Release (#678)

* remove citation

* Increment version number to 1.5.2

* add news item

* add cran comment
---
 DESCRIPTION      |  2 +-
 NEWS.md          |  4 +++-
 cran-comments.md |  2 +-
 inst/CITATION    | 23 -----------------------
 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 inst/CITATION

diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d8affd815..cc3a8d48e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Type: Package
 Package: EpiNow2
 Title: Estimate Real-Time Case Counts and Time-Varying
     Epidemiological Parameters
-Version: 1.5.1.9000
+Version: 1.5.2
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Sam",
              family = "Abbott",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index bddbd7bf1..f96f96726 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-# EpiNow2 (development version)
+# EpiNow2 1.5.2
+
+A patch release to further fix an issue with the date in the package citation. This has now been addressed by removing `inst/CITATION`.
 
 # EpiNow2 1.5.1
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index c035396ab..eda4c7fd8 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Resubmission comments
 
-An issue with a NULL year field in `inst/CITATION` has been fixed.
+An ongoing issue `inst/CITATION` has been fixed by removing the file altogether and sticking with the CRAN default citation instead.
diff --git a/inst/CITATION b/inst/CITATION
deleted file mode 100644
index 4a5336841..000000000
--- a/inst/CITATION
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# Code copied from citation()
-author <- meta$`Authors@R`
-if (length(author)) {
-    aar <- .read_authors_at_R_field(author)
-    author <- Filter(function(e) {
-        !(is.null(e$given) && is.null(e$family)) && !is.na(match("aut", 
-            e$role))
-    }, aar)
-}
-
-if (is.null(meta$Date)) {
-  date <- format(Sys.Date(), "%Y")
-} else {
-  date <- format(meta$Date, "%Y")
-}
-
-bibentry(
-  bibtype = "Manual",
-  title   = paste0(meta$Package, ": ", gsub("[[:space:]]+", " ", meta$Title)),
-  author  = author,
-  year    = date,
-  doi     = "10.5281/zenodo.3957489"
-)