Parse the Authors@R field from a DESCRIPTION file into a person object
Value
A person object, or a list of person objects of length equals
to the length of authors_r_string
Examples
# Read from a DESCRIPTION file directly
pkg_description <- system.file("DESCRIPTION", package = "authoritative")
authors_r_pkg <- read.dcf(pkg_description, "Authors@R")
parse_authors_r(authors_r_pkg)
#> [1] "Hugo Gruson <hugo@data.org> [aut, cre, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4094-1476>)"
# Read from a database of CRAN metadata
cran_epidemiology_packages |>
subset(!is.na(`Authors@R`), `Authors@R`, drop = TRUE) |>
parse_authors_r() |>
head()
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "Thibaut Jombart [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2226-8692>)"
#> [2] "Zhian N. Kamvar <zkamvar@gmail.com> [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-7108>)"
#> [3] "Caitlin Collins [ctb]"
#> [4] "Roman Lustrik [ctb]"
#> [5] "Marie-Pauline Beugin [ctb]"
#> [6] "Brian J. Knaus [ctb]"
#> [7] "Peter Solymos [ctb]"
#> [8] "Vladimir Mikryukov [ctb]"
#> [9] "Klaus Schliep [ctb]"
#> [10] "Tiago Maié [ctb]"
#> [11] "Libor Morkovsky [ctb]"
#> [12] "Ismail Ahmed [ctb]"
#> [13] "Anne Cori [ctb]"
#> [14] "Federico Calboli [ctb]"
#> [15] "RJ Ewing [ctb]"
#> [16] "Frédéric Michaud [ctb]"
#> [17] "Rebecca DeCamp [ctb]"
#> [18] "Alexandre Courtiol [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0637-2959>)"
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "Thibaut Jombart [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2226-8692>)"
#> [2] "Zhian N. Kamvar <zkamvar@gmail.com> [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-7108>)"
#> [3] "Caitlin Collins [ctb]"
#> [4] "Roman Lustrik [ctb]"
#> [5] "Marie-Pauline Beugin [ctb]"
#> [6] "Brian J. Knaus [ctb]"
#> [7] "Peter Solymos [ctb]"
#> [8] "Vladimir Mikryukov [ctb]"
#> [9] "Klaus Schliep [ctb]"
#> [10] "Tiago Maié [ctb]"
#> [11] "Libor Morkovsky [ctb]"
#> [12] "Ismail Ahmed [ctb]"
#> [13] "Anne Cori [ctb]"
#> [14] "Federico Calboli [ctb]"
#> [15] "RJ Ewing [ctb]"
#> [16] "Frédéric Michaud [ctb]"
#> [17] "Rebecca DeCamp [ctb]"
#> [18] "Alexandre Courtiol [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0637-2959>)"
#>
#> [[3]]
#> [1] "Thibaut Jombart [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2226-8692>)"
#> [2] "Zhian N. Kamvar <zkamvar@gmail.com> [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-7108>)"
#> [3] "Caitlin Collins [ctb]"
#> [4] "Roman Lustrik [ctb]"
#> [5] "Marie-Pauline Beugin [ctb]"
#> [6] "Brian J. Knaus [ctb]"
#> [7] "Peter Solymos [ctb]"
#> [8] "Vladimir Mikryukov [ctb]"
#> [9] "Klaus Schliep [ctb]"
#> [10] "Tiago Maié [ctb]"
#> [11] "Libor Morkovsky [ctb]"
#> [12] "Ismail Ahmed [ctb]"
#> [13] "Anne Cori [ctb]"
#> [14] "Federico Calboli [ctb]"
#> [15] "RJ Ewing [ctb]"
#> [16] "Frédéric Michaud [ctb]"
#> [17] "Rebecca DeCamp [ctb]"
#> [18] "Alexandre Courtiol [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0637-2959>)"
#>
#> [[4]]
#> [1] "Thibaut Jombart [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2226-8692>)"
#> [2] "Zhian N. Kamvar <zkamvar@gmail.com> [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-7108>)"
#> [3] "Caitlin Collins [ctb]"
#> [4] "Roman Lustrik [ctb]"
#> [5] "Marie-Pauline Beugin [ctb]"
#> [6] "Brian J. Knaus [ctb]"
#> [7] "Peter Solymos [ctb]"
#> [8] "Vladimir Mikryukov [ctb]"
#> [9] "Klaus Schliep [ctb]"
#> [10] "Tiago Maié [ctb]"
#> [11] "Libor Morkovsky [ctb]"
#> [12] "Ismail Ahmed [ctb]"
#> [13] "Anne Cori [ctb]"
#> [14] "Federico Calboli [ctb]"
#> [15] "RJ Ewing [ctb]"
#> [16] "Frédéric Michaud [ctb]"
#> [17] "Rebecca DeCamp [ctb]"
#> [18] "Alexandre Courtiol [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0637-2959>)"
#> [19] "Lindsay V. Clark [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3881-9252>)"
#> [20] "Pavel Dimens [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3823-0373>)"
#>
#> [[5]]
#> [1] "Thibaut Jombart [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2226-8692>)"
#> [2] "Zhian N. Kamvar <zkamvar@gmail.com> [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-7108>)"
#> [3] "Caitlin Collins [ctb]"
#> [4] "Roman Lustrik [ctb]"
#> [5] "Marie-Pauline Beugin [ctb]"
#> [6] "Brian J. Knaus [ctb]"
#> [7] "Peter Solymos [ctb]"
#> [8] "Vladimir Mikryukov [ctb]"
#> [9] "Klaus Schliep [ctb]"
#> [10] "Tiago Maié [ctb]"
#> [11] "Libor Morkovsky [ctb]"
#> [12] "Ismail Ahmed [ctb]"
#> [13] "Anne Cori [ctb]"
#> [14] "Federico Calboli [ctb]"
#> [15] "RJ Ewing [ctb]"
#> [16] "Frédéric Michaud [ctb]"
#> [17] "Rebecca DeCamp [ctb]"
#> [18] "Alexandre Courtiol [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0637-2959>)"
#> [19] "Lindsay V. Clark [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3881-9252>)"
#> [20] "Pavel Dimens [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3823-0373>)"
#>
#> [[6]]
#> [1] "Thibaut Jombart [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2226-8692>)"
#> [2] "Zhian N. Kamvar <zkamvar@gmail.com> [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-7108>)"
#> [3] "Caitlin Collins [ctb]"
#> [4] "Roman Lustrik [ctb]"
#> [5] "Marie-Pauline Beugin [ctb]"
#> [6] "Brian J. Knaus [ctb]"
#> [7] "Peter Solymos [ctb]"
#> [8] "Vladimir Mikryukov [ctb]"
#> [9] "Klaus Schliep [ctb]"
#> [10] "Tiago Maié [ctb]"
#> [11] "Libor Morkovsky [ctb]"
#> [12] "Ismail Ahmed [ctb]"
#> [13] "Anne Cori [ctb]"
#> [14] "Federico Calboli [ctb]"
#> [15] "RJ Ewing [ctb]"
#> [16] "Frédéric Michaud [ctb]"
#> [17] "Rebecca DeCamp [ctb]"
#> [18] "Alexandre Courtiol [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0637-2959>)"
#> [19] "Lindsay V. Clark [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3881-9252>)"
#> [20] "Pavel Dimens [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3823-0373>)"
#>