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[Bioc-devel] Author name displayed incorrectly in package landing page

4 messages · Selles Vidal, Lara, Marcel Ramos, Shepherd, Lori +1 more

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Dear Bioconductor team,

I have recently realized the first author name in my rfaRm package is not displayed as intended in its landing page (https://bioconductor.org/packages/rfaRm).

In short, I put my name as ?Lara Selles Vidal? in the Author: field of the DESCRIPTION file. My first name is just ?Lara?, and ?Selles Vidal? are my surnames. However, it has been interpreted as Vidal, LS. The intended behaviour would have been Selles Vidal, L

Is there any workaround for this?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best wishes,

Lara
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Hi Lara,

I often recommend the use of the `Authors at R` field in the DESCRIPTION file
which will give you more control:

```
Authors at R: c(
??? person(given = "Lara", family = "Selles Vidal", ...),
??? ...
??? )
```

Best,

Marcel
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You might have better luck updating the Author and Maintainer fields in the DESCRIPTION to Authors at R syntax.
It should also be noted there should only be one maintainer for the package.




Lori Shepherd

Bioconductor Core Team

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Elm & Carlton Streets

Buffalo, New York 14263
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An alternative that might also work is to add a CITATION file, which might
make it easier to define first and last names.
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#CITATION-files

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 4:42 PM Shepherd, Lori <
Lori.Shepherd at roswellpark.org> wrote: