desc_del_role: Delete a role of an author, in DESCRIPTION

In r-lib/desc: Manipulate DESCRIPTION Files

Delete a role of an author, in DESCRIPTION

Description

The author(s) can be specified by a combination of the given, family, email, comment and orcid fields. If multiple filters are specified, then all must match to identify the author(s).

Usage

desc_del_role(
  role,
  given = NULL,
  family = NULL,
  email = NULL,
  comment = NULL,
  orcid = NULL,
  file = ".",
  normalize = FALSE
)

Arguments

role	Role to remove.
given	Given name to filter on. Regular expression.
family	Family name to filter on. Regular expression.
email	Email address to filter on. Regular expression.
comment	Comment field to filter on. Regular expression.
orcid	ORCID field to filter on.
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().

See Also

Other Authors@R: desc_add_author_gh(), desc_add_author(), desc_add_me(), desc_add_orcid(), desc_add_role(), desc_change_maintainer(), desc_coerce_authors_at_r(), desc_del_author(), 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.