authoritative
Parse and Deduplicate Author Names
Utilities to parse authors fields from DESCRIPTION files and general purpose functions to deduplicate names in database, beyond the specific case of R package authors.
authoritative
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("Bisaloo/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] "Hugo Gruson <[email protected]> [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4094-1476>)"
#> [2] "Chris Hartgerink [rev] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1050-6809>)"
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.
Related projects
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.