AutoAff: Automatic generation of affiliation lists.

In ly129/AutoAff: Automatic Affiliation

Description

AutoAff facilitates the management for long author lists and their affiliations. The outputs include a text string of R Markdown syntax that can be knitted to create superscripted indices.

Usage

AutoAff(X, affiliation)

Arguments

X	A user-supplied data frame with columns containing the authors' affiliations.
affiliation	Names of the variables containing affiliations. A character vector, see 'Examples'.

Details

Empty cells (for those authors with fewer affiliations) in X have to be either NA or "".

Copy and paste rmd in result into R Markdown and knit to Microsoft Word to get affiliation lists with superscripted indices. See 'Examples'.

Value

This function returns a list with six elements:

rmd	Indexed affiliations in R Markdown syntax, see 'Details'.
affiliations	Affiliations by order of appearance
aff.count	Number of different affiliations
aut.count	Number of authors
index	Indices of each author's affililation(s)
missing	Number of authors with no affiliations

Examples

result <- AutoAff(X = authors,
                  affiliation = c("aff1", "aff2", "aff3", "aff4", "aff5", "aff6"))
result

# R Markdown syntax
result$rmd

ly129/AutoAff documentation built on Nov. 4, 2019, 5:16 p.m.