Design Principles for authoritative

Scope

This package has two main functionalities:

• the first is relevant to the ecosystem of R package and its analysis. It provides functions to parse and extract information from the Author and Authors@R fields from DESCRIPTION
• the second is more widely relevant, beyond the specific case of R package authors. It provides general purpose functions to deduplicate and standardize author names.

Naming conventions

• Functions for deduplication are named <verb>_names().

Input/Output/Interoperability

• Functions for deduplication:
  • take a messy vector of names as first argument
  • take a source of truth vector of names as second argument
  • return a cleaned vector of names of the same length as the first argument

Design decisions

Dependencies

This package imports stringi as a dependency. Most of the operations performed by the package are string manipulations, and stringi increases performance and readability of the code compared to base R functions.