[Rd] citation() chops "Roeland " (PR#7797)

[Peter Dalgaard]

jari.oksanen at oulu.fi writes:

> Full_Name: Jari Oksanen
> Version: 2.0.1, 2.1.0 beta (2005-04-17)
> OS: Linux
> Submission from: (NULL) (130.231.102.145)
> 
> 
> If name ends with "and", such as "Roeland Lastname", citation() will chop "and"
> as a separate word giving "Roel and Lastname". This is the case in the upcoming
> release of vegan (1.6-8) just submitted to CRAN. Basically, this seems to happen
> in utils:::as.personList.default
> 
> > unlist(as.personList("Roeland Lastname"))
>  name.first name.middle   name.last  name.first name.middle   name.last
>          ""          ""      "Roel"          ""          ""  "Lastname"
> 
> and the culprit line seems to be:
> 
> x <- unlist(strsplit(x, "[[:space:]]?(,|and)[[:space:]]+"))
> 
> Fortunately, persons like Anders Andtfolk and Mandalay Grandjean are not
> chopped, because they don't have space after "and".

I'm sure it'll annoy Anders|George Sand, Bertrand Russell, Inge
Helland, et al., but it hardly counts as release-critical, nor trivial
enough to slip in during code freeze, especially as regular
expressions are involved (does one *ever* get them right on the first
try?)

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