Convert the Author and Maintainer fields to
Authors@R, which is necessary for other functions such as
desc_get_authors().
Arguments
- 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().
Details
If the Authors@R field does not exist,
desc_coerce_authors_at_r tries to parse the Author and
Maintainer fields with utils::as.person() and writes
them to the Authors@R field.
Note that Author and Maintainer are free-form fields, so
parsing them may fail.
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_del_author(),
desc_del_role(),
desc_get_authors(),
desc_get_author(),
desc_get_maintainer(),
desc_set_authors()