Encode Author & Maintainer as Authors@R #18
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This follows some recommendations from Kurt Hornik, CRAN co-founder, at the useR2024! conference.
It is considered better practice to use
Authors@Rbecause it offers more granular control (e.g., what is first vs family name), which is even more important now that package metadata is submitted to crossref.Documentation about this field: https://r-pkgs.org/description.html#sec-description-authors-at-r
From my end, I also use this data in https://epiverse-connect.github.io/ctv-analysis/