Either from the ‘Maintainer’ or the ‘Authors@R’ field.
desc_get_maintainer(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.
A character scalar.
Other Authors@R: desc_add_author
,
desc_add_me
, desc_add_role
,
desc_change_maintainer
,
desc_del_author
,
desc_del_role
,
desc_get_authors
,
desc_get_author
,
desc_set_authors