contributor: Creating and Adding Contributors to a Data Package
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new_contributor

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Creating and Adding Contributors to a Data Package

Description

Creating and Adding Contributors to a Data Package

Usage

new_contributor(
  title,
  role = c("contributor", "author", "publisher", "maintainer", "wrangler"),
  path = NULL,
  email = NULL,
  organisation = NULL
)

dp_add_contributor(x, contributor)

dp_add_contributor(x) <- value

Arguments

`title`	A length 1 character vector with the full nam of the contributor.
`role`	The role of the contributor
`path`	A URL to e.g. a home page of the contributor
`email`	The email address of the contributor
`organisation`	The orgination the contributor belongs to.
`x`	The Data Package to which the contributor has to be added.
`contributor`	a contributor object
`value`	a contributor object

Value

new_contributor returns a list with the given properties. This function is meant to assist in creating valid contributors.

Examples

dp <- open_datapackage(system.file(package = "datapackage", "examples/iris")) 
dp_contributors(dp)
dp_contributors(dp) <- list(
  new_contributor("John Doe", email = "j.doe@somewhere.org"),
  list(title = "Jane Doe", role = "maintainer")
)
dp_add_contributor(dp) <- new_contributor("Janet Doe")

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