Package index • authoritative

Extracting authors

parse_authors(): Parse the Author field from a DESCRIPTION file

parse_authors_r(): Parse the Authors@R field from a DESCRIPTION file

Cleaning names

expand_names(): Expand names from abbreviated forms or initials

invert_names(): Invert 'LastName FirstName' to 'FirstName LastName' (or the reverse)

Datasets

cran_epidemiology_packages: A data.frame of historical metadata from CRAN packages epidemiology.