R: Remove one or more authors from DESCRIPTION.

desc_del_author {desc} | R Documentation

## Remove one or more authors from DESCRIPTION.

### Description

It uses the Authors@R field. The author(s) to be removed can be specified via any field(s). All authors matching all specifications will be removed. E.g. if only `given = "Joe"` is supplied, then all authors whole given name matches `Joe` will be removed. The specifications can be (PCRE) regular expressions.

### Usage

    desc_del_author(given = NULL, family = NULL, email = NULL, role = NULL,
      comment = NULL, file = ".", normalize = FALSE)

### Arguments

`given` | Given name to filter on. Regular expression.
`family` | Family name to filter on. Regular expression.
`email` | Email address to filter on. Regular expression.
`role` | Role to filter on. Regular expression.
`comment` | Comment field to filter on. Regular expression.
`file` | DESCRIPTION file to use. By default the DESCRIPTION file of the current package (i.e. the package the working directory is part of) is used.
`normalize` | Whether to normalize the write when writing back the result. See `desc_normalize`.

### See Also

Other Authors@R: `desc_add_author`, `desc_add_me`, `desc_add_role`, `desc_change_maintainer`, `desc_del_role`, `desc_get_authors`, `desc_get_author`, `desc_get_maintainer`, `desc_set_authors`

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