plume

A Simple Author Handler for Scientific Writing

v0.3.0 · Sep 27, 2025 · GPL (>= 3)

Description

Handles and formats author information in scientific writing in 'R Markdown' and 'Quarto'. 'plume' provides easy-to-use and flexible tools for inserting author data in 'YAML' as well as generating author and contribution lists (among others) as strings from tabular data.

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang	OK	104s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc	OK	72.5s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang	OK	164.2s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc	OK	247.5s
r-devel-windows-x86_64	OK	120s
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r-oldrel-windows-x86_64	OK	148s
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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Version History

9 tracked

new 0.3.0 Mar 10, 2026

updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.5 diff Sep 26, 2025

updated 0.2.5 ← 0.2.4 diff Sep 1, 2024

updated 0.2.4 ← 0.2.3 diff May 9, 2024

updated 0.2.3 ← 0.2.2 diff Jan 28, 2024

updated 0.2.2 ← 0.2.1 diff Jan 8, 2024

updated 0.2.1 ← 0.2.0 diff Dec 8, 2023

updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.0 diff Nov 29, 2023

new 0.1.0 Oct 5, 2023