desc_add_author_gh: Add a GitHub user as an author to DESCRIPTION

In r-lib/desc: Manipulate DESCRIPTION Files

Add a GitHub user as an author to DESCRIPTION

Description

Uses the Authors@R field.

Usage

desc_add_author_gh(
  username,
  role = "ctb",
  comment = NULL,
  orcid = NULL,
  file = ".",
  normalize = FALSE
)

Arguments

username	GitHub username of the GitHub user
role	Role to set for the user, defaults to contributor.
comment	Comment, empty by default.
orcid	ORCID, empty by default.
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().

Details

desc_add_author_gh is a convenience function, it adds the GitHub user as an author, and it needs the gh package to be installed. The full name is parsed using as.person and collapsing the given name and the family name in order to e.g. have the first and middle names together as given name. This approach might be limited to some full name structures.

See Also

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

r-lib/desc documentation built on Aug. 29, 2024, 5:23 p.m.