R: Parse and Deduplicate Author Names

# Parse and Deduplicate Author Names

## Documentation for package ‘authoritative’ version 0.2.0

- DESCRIPTION file
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation
- Package NEWS
- Package README

## Help Pages

cran_epidemiology_packages | A data.frame of historical metadata from CRAN packages epidemiology.
expand_names | Expand names from abbreviated forms or initials
invert_names | Invert 'LastName FirstName' to 'FirstName LastName' (or the reverse)
parse_authors | Parse the 'Author' field from a DESCRIPTION file
parse_authors_r | Parse the 'Authors@R' field from a DESCRIPTION file