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".
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?) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
Friedrich.Leisch@tuwien.ac.at
2005-Apr-18 11:30 UTC
[Rd] citation() chops "Roeland " (PR#7797)
>>>>> On 18 Apr 2005 11:18:03 +0200, >>>>> Peter Dalgaard (PD) wrote:> 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?) Certainly not release critical ... especially as the conversion doesn't claim to work in all cases and is there only for convenience: person("Roeland", "Lastname") does the right thing, so one can write a correct CITATION file. unlist(strsplit(x, "[[:space:]]?(,|[[:space:]]and)[[:space:]]+")) should do the trick, I'll put it into the patched branch after release. .f