To cite package archetypes in publications use:

Manuel J. A. Eugster and Friedrich Leisch. From Spider-Man to Hero -- Archetypal Analysis in R. Journal of Statistical Software, 30(8), 1-23, 2009. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v30/i08/

To cite weighted and robust archetypes in publications use:

Manuel J. A. Eugster and Friedrich Leisch. Weighted and Robust Archetypal Analysis Technical Report 82, Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany. 2010. http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11498/

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {{From {S}pider-{M}an to {H}ero -- Archetypal Analsis in
      {R}},
    author = {Manuel J. A. Eugster and Friedrich Leisch},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2009},
    volume = {30},
    number = {8},
    pages = {1--23},
    url = {http://www.jstatsoft.org/v30/i08/},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Weighted and Robust Archetypal Analysis},
    author = {Manuel J. A. Eugster and Friedrich Leisch},
    journal = {Technical Report 82, Department of Statistics,
      Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany},
    year = {2010},
    volume = {82},
    pages = {1--13},
    url = {http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11498/},
  }