[R] Adding Institution-Affiliation to Description File of R Package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 10/01/2012 1:02 PM, Ben Ganzfried wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just finishing up an R package and I was wondering if anyone knows how
> to include institution name in the "Description File."  That is, my current
> Description File looks like:
>
> Package: curatedCancerData
> Type: Package
> Title: Cancer Gene Expression Analysis
> Version: 1.0
> Date: 2011-12-24
> Author: Benjamin F. Ganzfried, et al.
> Maintainer: Benjamin F. Ganzfried<ben.ganzfried at gmail.com>
> Description: The curatedCancerData package provides relevant functions and
> data for gene expression analysis.
> License: GPL (>= 3)
>
>
> Ideally I would like the final PDF to have footnotes showing the university
> affiliations of all the authors (more will be listed than currently are
> above).  I would greatly appreciate any suggestions!

Write a curatedCancerData-package.Rd topic, and put the information in 
there.  It won't show up on the title page of the reference manual, but 
it will be the first topic.  See "Documenting Packages" (section 2.1.4, 
I think) in the "Writing R Extensions" manual.

Duncan Murdoch