Author@R

Hi All,

Could someone point me to an example on how to use Author at R in a package 
DESCRIPTION file?

Say with 2 authors: John Doe and Jane Doe, the latter is a maintainer 
which could replace:

Author: John Doe, Jane Doe
Maintainer: Jane Doe

"Both ?Author? and ?Maintainer? can be omitted (as from R 2.14.0) if a
suitable ?Authors at R? is given. This field can be used to provide a
refined, machine-readable description of the package ?authors? (in
particular specifying their precise roles), via suitable R code. The
roles can include ?"aut"? (author) for full authors, ?"cre"? (creator)
for the package maintainer, and ?"ctb"? (contributor) for other
contributors, among others. See ?person for more information. Note
that no role is assumed by default. Auto-generated package citation
information takes advantage of this specification; in R 2.14.0 or
later, the ?Author? and ?Maintainer? fields are auto-generated from it
if needed when building or installing."

Yes, I also checked ?person but no example there either.  I am quite a
newbie and preparing my first R package... Thanks!

-Matyas

There is an introduction in the following report:
http://epub.wu.ac.at/3269/

Authors at R: c(person(given = "John", family = "Doe", role = "aut"),
?person(given = "Jane", family = "Doe", role = c("aut", "cre"),
? ?email = "Jane.Doe at e-mail.org"))

Thanks for the quick response!  That is exactly what I was looking for.

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Achim Zeileis

There is an introduction in the following report:
http://epub.wu.ac.at/3269/

[...]

Authors at R: c(person(given = "John", family = "Doe", role = "aut"),
?person(given = "Jane", family = "Doe", role = c("aut", "cre"),
? ?email = "Jane.Doe at e-mail.org"))

An additional question.  My name in LaTeX syntax is: M\'aty\'as, could
I, should I use that form?  (I admit I did not read the whole pdf you
cited, but I searched for the word "accent" in it to no avail.)

Thanks again!
-Matyas