person {utils}

R Documentation

Person Names and Contact Information

Description

A class and utility methods for holding information about persons like name and email address.

Usage

person(first = "", last = "", middle = "", email = "")
personList(...)
as.person(x)
as.personList(x)

## S3 method for class 'person'
as.character(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'personList'
as.character(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'person'
toBibtex(object, ...)
## S3 method for class 'personList'
toBibtex(object, ...)

Arguments

first	character string, first name
middle	character string, middle name(s)
last	character string, last name
email	character string, email address
...	for personList an arbitrary number of person objects
x	a character string or an object of class person or personList
object	an object of class person or personList

Examples

## create a person object directly
p1 <- person("Karl", "Pearson", email = "pearson@stats.heaven")
p1

## convert a string
p2 <- as.person("Ronald Aylmer Fisher")
p2

## create one object holding both
p <- personList(p1, p2)
ps <- as.character(p)
ps
as.personList(ps)

## convert to BibTeX author field
toBibtex(p)

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