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