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authoritative provides functions to clean authors names, with a focus on the context of R package authors.

Installation

You can install the stable version of this package from CRAN:

install.packages("authoritative")

or the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("epiverse-connect/authoritative")

Example

These examples illustrate some of the current functionalities:

library(authoritative)

pkg_description <- system.file("DESCRIPTION", package = "authoritative")
authors_r_pkg <- read.dcf(pkg_description, "Authors@R")
parse_authors_r(authors_r_pkg)
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "Hugo Gruson <hugo@data.org> [aut, cre, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4094-1476>)"

Development

Lifecycle

This package is currently a concept, as defined by the RECON software lifecycle. This means that essential features and mechanisms are still being developed, and the package is not ready for use outside of the development team.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome via pull requests.

This project is related to other existing projects in R or other languages, but also differs from them in the following aspects:

Code of Conduct

Please note that the authoritative project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.