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2015 Oct 07
2
authorship and citation
An example from the sos package: Its DESCRIPTION file says Author:
Spencer Graves, Sundar Dorai-Raj, and Romain Francois. However, the
package includes a findFn function, whose help file includes an
Author(s) section, which reads, "Spencer Graves, Sundar Dorai-Raj,
Romain Francois. Duncan Murdoch suggested the "???" alias for "findFn"
and contributed the code for
2015 Oct 07
2
authorship and citation
...un package; I'm
>> listed as the Author and Maintainer of that.
>>
>
> This reminded me of something I have always found curious about roles
> listed in the DESCRIPTION file. Since there is no "maintainer" role in this
> list: http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaterm.html, which was used to get
> the role names, you will be listed as the "creator" of the package when you
> list yourself as maintainer even if you did not initiate the package or
> even contribute code.
>
I think it was easier to (ab)use that role than to get a "Mainta...