parse_authors_r: Parse the 'Authors@R' field from a DESCRIPTION file

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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 Authors@R field from a DESCRIPTION file

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()

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