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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 <hugo.gruson+R@normalesup.org> [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.

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install.packages('authoritative')

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Version

0.2.0

License

MIT + file LICENSE

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Maintainer

Hugo Gruson

Last Published

June 24th, 2025

Functions in authoritative (0.2.0)

parse_authors

Parse the Author field from a DESCRIPTION file
parse_authors_r

Parse the Authors@R field from a DESCRIPTION file
cran_epidemiology_packages

A data.frame of historical metadata from CRAN packages epidemiology.
expand_names

Expand names from abbreviated forms or initials
invert_names

Invert 'LastName FirstName' to 'FirstName LastName' (or the reverse)
authoritative-package

authoritative: Parse and Deduplicate Author Names