To cite package ‘HistData’ in publications use:

  Friendly M (2024). _HistData: Data Sets from the History of
  Statistics and Data Visualization_. R package version 0.9-2,
  <https://github.com/friendly/histdata>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {HistData: Data Sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization},
    author = {Michael Friendly},
    year = {2024},
    note = {R package version 0.9-2},
    url = {https://github.com/friendly/histdata},
  }