Get/set the Creator of the object.

Add the optional Creator property as an attribute to an R object.

Usage

creator(x)

creator(x, overwrite = TRUE) <- value

Arguments

x

An R object, such as a data.frame, a tibble, or a data.table.

overwrite

If the attributes should be overwritten. In case it is set to FALSE, it gives a message with the current Creator property instead of overwriting it. Defaults to TRUE when the attribute is set to value regardless of previous setting.

value

The Creator as a utils::person object.

Value

The Creator attribute as a character of length 1 is added to x.

Details

The Creator corresponds to dct:creator and Creator in DataCite. The name of the entity that holds, archives, publishes prints, distributes, releases, issues, or produces the resource. This property will be used to formulate the citation, so consider the prominence of the role. For software, use Creator for the code repository. If there is an entity other than a code repository, that "holds, archives, publishes, prints, distributes, releases, issues, or produces" the code, use the property Contributor/contributorType/hostingInstitution for the code repository.

See also

Other Reference metadata functions: dataset_source(), description(), geolocation(), identifier(), language, publication_year(), publisher(), rights(), size(), version()

Examples

iris_dataset <- iris
creator(iris_dataset) <- person("Anderson", "Edgar", role = "aut")
creator(iris_dataset)
#> [1] "Anderson Edgar [aut]"