R: Delete a role of an author, in DESCRIPTION

desc_del_role {desc} | R Documentation

## Delete a role of an author, in DESCRIPTION

### Description

The author(s) can be specified by a combination of the `given`, `family`, `email` and `comment` fields. If multiple filters are specified, then all must match to identify the author(s).

### Usage

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

### Arguments

`role` | Role to remove.
`given` | Given name to filter on. Regular expression.
`family` | Family name to filter on. Regular expression.
`email` | Email address 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_author`, `desc_get_authors`, `desc_get_author`, `desc_get_maintainer`, `desc_set_authors`

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