parse_authors: Parse the 'Author' field from a DESCRIPTION file

In authoritative: Parse and Deduplicate Author Names

Parse the Author field from a DESCRIPTION file

Description

Parse the Author field from a DESCRIPTION file into a person object

Usage

parse_authors(author_string)

Arguments

author_string

A character containing the Author or Maintainer field from a DESCRIPTION file

Value

A character vector, or a list of character vectors of length equals to the length of author_string

Examples

# Read from a DESCRIPTION file directly
utils_description <- system.file("DESCRIPTION", package = "utils")
utils_authors <- read.dcf(utils_description, "Author")

parse_authors(utils_authors)

# Read from a database of CRAN metadata
cran_epidemiology_packages$Author |>
  parse_authors() |>
  unlist() |>
  unique() |>
  sort()

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