authordown

0.1.0

Author Metadata Management and Manuscript Front Matter

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1.9Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Zhipeng CaoFirst published 2026-03-241 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Manage author metadata and generate manuscript front matter. It produces title pages, acknowledgements, conflicts of interest, and contribution sections for large author lists, with helpers for validating and reading common spreadsheet formats.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("authordown", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("zh1peng/authordown")

Development version from zh1peng/authordown. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-authordown

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-authordown

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-03-25
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ zh1peng/authordown

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manuscripttitlepageauthordowntoomanyauthors

License AGPL-3.0 · Last activity 2026-02-05

Repository practices

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Dependencies

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7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.5

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openxlsx rlang

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Zhipeng Cao

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Authors (1)

Zhipeng Cao

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-24 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-24
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI
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