cran_maintainers: Tidy information about maintainers

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Tidy information about maintainers

Description

Make more accessible information about maintainers. Extracts and makes comparable some dates. It also provides the user name used and cleans the names of the maintainer of extra quotes.

Usage

cran_maintainers()

Details

User is what the machine building the package reported. This might indicate some collaboration, repackaging or simply nothing as it can be hidden/modified. The name, email and user might help identify similar named people (or confuse between maintainers)

Value

A data.frame with one row per package and 11 columns. The package name, Maintainer field, user maintainer manual date, packaged date, published date, name of maintainer used, email used, direction and domain.

See Also

The raw source of the data is: CRAN_authors_db()

Examples

maintainers <- cran_maintainers()
head(maintainers)

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