It uses the Authors@R field. The author(s) to be removed
can be specified via any field(s). All authors matching all
specifications will be removed. E.g. if only given = "Joe"
is supplied, then all authors whole given name matches Joe will
be removed. The specifications can be (PCRE) regular expressions.
Usage
desc_del_author(
given = NULL,
family = NULL,
email = NULL,
role = NULL,
comment = NULL,
orcid = NULL,
file = ".",
normalize = FALSE
)Arguments
- given
Given name to filter on. Regular expression.
- family
Family name to filter on. Regular expression.
Email address to filter on. Regular expression.
- role
Role to filter on. Regular expression.
- comment
Comment field to filter on. Regular expression.
- orcid
ORCID field to filter on.
- 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.
- normalize
Whether to "normalize" (reorder and reformat) the fields when writing back the result. See
desc_normalize().
See also
Other Authors@R:
desc_add_author_gh(),
desc_add_author(),
desc_add_me(),
desc_add_orcid(),
desc_add_role(),
desc_change_maintainer(),
desc_coerce_authors_at_r(),
desc_del_role(),
desc_get_authors(),
desc_get_author(),
desc_get_maintainer(),
desc_set_authors()