diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index bc8db1e9..9e0ed570 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Package: BrailleR
 Title: Improved Access for Blind Users
 Version: 1.0.0
+Date: 2023-07-01
 Authors@R: c(
     person("A. Jonathan R.", "Godfrey", , "a.j.godfrey@massey.ac.nz", role = c("aut", "cre"),
     comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8129-8835")),
@@ -43,7 +44,6 @@ URL: https://github.com/ajrgodfrey/BrailleR,
     http://ajrgodfrey.github.io/BrailleR/
 BugReports: https://github.com/ajrgodfrey/BrailleR/issues
 Depends:
-    mathjaxr,
     R (>= 3.4.0)
 Imports:
     devtools,
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Imports:
     gridSVG,
     hunspell,
     knitr,
+    mathjaxr,
     moments,
     quarto,
     Rdpack,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 6bb96b26..c2f03f21 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import(gridGraphics)
 importFrom("gridSVG", "dev.off", "elementGrob", "textNodeGrob")
 importFrom("hunspell", "hunspell")
 import(knitr)
+import(mathjaxr)
 importFrom("moments", "skewness")
 importFrom("quarto", "quarto_path")
 importFrom("Rdpack","reprompt")
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ab3f1f4c..86808d33 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # BrailleR 1.0.0
 - first production release. Still plenty to add, but the original intention of the package has now been met.
-
-
-
+- removed explicit CITATION file. This then required explicit date specification in DESCRIPTION.
 
 # BrailleR 0.99.0
 - did some cleaning up to de-clutter, check examples, add documentation, and all the good things that must be done prior to v1.0.0
@@ -11,8 +9,6 @@
 - removed other dependencies (on base packages) from imports
 - responded to June 28 CRAN check
 
-
-
 # BrailleR 0.33.4
 - fix issue #35 with incorrect bin counts
 - fix issue #24, correcting base r plot titles in VI
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 13674d2e..df1a6136 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 nothing to note (I hope) except:
 
 
-Any functions relying on package 'installr' (which was originally created for Windows only and listed as Suggests), only try to make use of installr::foo() within sufficient OS checking if() statements and requireNamespace().
+- NOTE re run time for examples. I get these sporadically. If pain persists, I will need to remove the examples.
 
-Any use of the shell() command do so with OS conditioning and interactive mode protection
+- Any functions relying on package 'installr' (which was originally created for Windows only and listed as Suggests), only try to make use of installr::foo() within sufficient OS checking if() statements and requireNamespace().
+
+- Any use of the shell() command do so with OS conditioning and interactive mode protection
 
diff --git a/inst/CITATION b/inst/CITATION
deleted file mode 100644
index d1ad0766..00000000
--- a/inst/CITATION
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-citHeader("To cite package 'BrailleR' in publications use:")
-
-if(!exists("meta") || is.null(meta)) meta <- packageDescription("BrailleR")
-year <- sub(".*(2[[:digit:]]{3})-.*", "\\1", meta$Date)
-vers <- paste("R package version", meta$Version)
-
-citEntry(entry="Manual",
-  title = "BrailleR: Improved access for blind users",
-author = personList(as.person("A. Jonathan R. Godfrey")), year = year,
-organization="Massey University",   note = vers, url = "https://cran.r-project.org/package=BrailleR",
-
-  textVersion =
-  paste("A. Jonathan R. Godfrey
-(",
-year,
-  "). BrailleR: Improved access for blind users. ",
-  vers, ".", sep=""))
-