subject_author: Convert subject terms for authors to names alone

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also Examples

Description

Given subject terms containing author names, strip away date ranges to yield "Last, First Middle Middle" names. No further de-duplication is performed. Subheadings and relation terms are assumed already stripped (as by strip_subject_relation).

Usage

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Arguments

x

character vector of subject terms

Details

Note that removing date ranges potentially also removes a disambiguation among authors with the same name. On your head be it.

Value

character vector of author terms

See Also

subjects_frame, is_author

Examples

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subject_author("Joyce, James (1882-1941)")

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