This question is an offshoot of another question from yesterday.
I'm currently writing my first R package, following Hadley Wickham's excellent book on the topic. The section of the book linked above includes examples for adding authors and contributors through the package's DESCRIPTION file.
Dr. Wickham notes that "The full list of roles is extremely comprehensive. Should your package have a woodcutter ('wdc'), lyricist ('lyr') or costume designer ('cst'), rest comfortably that you can correctly describe their role in creating your package."
The problem that I'm experiencing is that ?mypackagename returns [NA] for the contributor under "Author(s)" when that person's role is listed as something other than ctb (Contributor) -- for example, if Jane Smith below is listed as csp (Consultant to a Project) or, following Dr. Wickham's example above, as wdc (Woodcutter).
Example part of DESCRIPTION file:
Authors@R: c(
person("John", "Doe", email = "[email protected]", role = c("aut", "cre")),
person("Jane", "Smith", email = "[email protected]", role = "csp", comment = "Provided intellectual overview."))
Relevant output from ?mypackagename:
Maintainer: John Doe [email protected]
Other contributors:
Jane Smith [email protected] (Provided intellectual overview.) [NA]
Is there a way to tell R what this additional role is, to replace that [NA] text with something more accurate?
I would be grateful for any pointers!