Add an author to the current package — add

Adds an author to the description file of the current package.

Usage

add_author(
  orcid = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  role = NULL,
  email = NULL,
  affiliation = NULL
)

Arguments

orcid: Character string of the author's ORCID number. If this is null, then the function switches to manual entry.
name: A vector giving the package author(s)' name(s). Authors(s)last name(s) and first name(s) are separated by a comma.
role: Character vector of role(s) the author has in the project. Contributor by default. For example "c(aut, cre, ctb)".
email: Character string of the author's email
affiliation: Character vector of the author's miscellaneous information such as his/her institution.

Value

Adds a new author to the description file of the package

Details

This function adds an author to the description file of the current package. This can be done in two ways. First you can specify the ORCID number of the author you want to add. This will leverage the excellent rorcid package and scrape the information from the ORCID API and fill out the description file automatically. Second, you can specify the arguments manually if the author does not have an ORCID number. Finally, note that by default the role of the new author is set to contributor.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
add_author(orcid = "0000-0002-8361-9647", role = list(c("aut", "cre", "ctb")))
add_author(name = "Smith, John",
affiliation = "University of Somewhere")
}