desc_del_author: Remove one or more authors from DESCRIPTION.

In desc: Manipulate DESCRIPTION Files

Remove one or more authors from DESCRIPTION.

Description

It uses the Authors@R field. The author(s) to be removed can be specified via any field(s). All authors matching all specifications will be removed. E.g. if only given = "Joe" is supplied, then all authors whole given name matches Joe will be removed. The specifications can be (PCRE) regular expressions.

Usage

desc_del_author(
  given = NULL,
  family = NULL,
  email = NULL,
  role = NULL,
  comment = NULL,
  orcid = NULL,
  file = ".",
  normalize = FALSE
)

Arguments

given	Given name to filter on. Regular expression.
family	Family name to filter on. Regular expression.
email	Email address to filter on. Regular expression.
role	Role to filter on. Regular expression.
comment	Comment field to filter on. Regular expression.
orcid	ORCID field to filter on.
file	DESCRIPTION file to use. By default the DESCRIPTION file of the current package (i.e. the package the working directory is part of) is used.
normalize	Whether to "normalize" (reorder and reformat) the fields when writing back the result. See desc_normalize().

See Also

Other Authors@R: desc_add_author_gh(), desc_add_author(), desc_add_me(), desc_add_orcid(), desc_add_role(), desc_change_maintainer(), desc_coerce_authors_at_r(), desc_del_role(), desc_get_authors(), desc_get_author(), desc_get_maintainer(), desc_set_authors()

desc documentation built on May 29, 2024, 8:54 a.m.