Message-ID: <x2fyxov3xw.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2005-04-18T11:20:16Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: citation() chops "Roeland " (PR#7797)
In-Reply-To: <20050418083510.25A7AA1D8@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
jari.oksanen@oulu.fi writes:
> Full_Name: Jari Oksanen
> Version: 2.0.1, 2.1.0 beta (2005-04-17)
> OS: Linux
> Submission from: (NULL) (130.231.102.145)
>
>
> If name ends with "and", such as "Roeland Lastname", citation() will chop "and"
> as a separate word giving "Roel and Lastname". This is the case in the upcoming
> release of vegan (1.6-8) just submitted to CRAN. Basically, this seems to happen
> in utils:::as.personList.default
>
> > unlist(as.personList("Roeland Lastname"))
> name.first name.middle name.last name.first name.middle name.last
> "" "" "Roel" "" "" "Lastname"
>
> and the culprit line seems to be:
>
> x <- unlist(strsplit(x, "[[:space:]]?(,|and)[[:space:]]+"))
>
> Fortunately, persons like Anders Andtfolk and Mandalay Grandjean are not
> chopped, because they don't have space after "and".
I'm sure it'll annoy Anders|George Sand, Bertrand Russell, Inge
Helland, et al., but it hardly counts as release-critical, nor trivial
enough to slip in during code freeze, especially as regular
expressions are involved (does one *ever* get them right on the first
try?)
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