parse_authors_r {authoritative} | R Documentation |
Parse the Authors@R
field from a DESCRIPTION file
Description
Parse the Authors@R
field from a DESCRIPTION file into a person
object
Usage
parse_authors_r(authors_r_string)
Arguments
authors_r_string |
A character containing the |
Value
A person
object, or a list
of person
objects of length equals
to the length of authors_r_string
Examples
# Read from a DESCRIPTION file directly
pkg_description <- system.file("DESCRIPTION", package = "authoritative")
authors_r_pkg <- read.dcf(pkg_description, "Authors@R")
parse_authors_r(authors_r_pkg)
# Read from a database of CRAN metadata
cran_epidemiology_packages |>
subset(!is.na(`Authors@R`), `Authors@R`, drop = TRUE) |>
parse_authors_r() |>
head()
[Package authoritative version 0.2.0 Index]