Create a template to fill the CRediT author statement.

Create a template to fill the CRediT author statement. (https://credit.niso.org). The template is a table where the authors are the rows and the columns are the roles.

Usage

template_create(authors, file, roles = roles_get())

Arguments

authors

A character vector with all the authors to be included in the statement.

file

If a path is provided, the template is saved as a csv for excel

roles

A character vector with the roles to be included in the statement. If NULL, it uses all the roles defined in the CRediT author statement.

Value

A dataframe with a row for each author and a column for each role, filled with zeros.

Details

The dataframe can be edited in R or, if file is provided, it is exported to a csv to be edited manually in your preferred csv editor. The csv is created to be compatible with Microsoft Excel, since it is the most popular spreadsheet software among scientists. Therefore, it is separated by semicolon.

Examples

template_create(authors = c("Josep Maria", "Jane Doe"))
#>       Authors Conceptualization Methodology Software Validation Formal Analysis
#> 1 Josep Maria                 0           0        0          0               0
#> 2    Jane Doe                 0           0        0          0               0
#>   Investigation Resources Data curation Writing - original draft
#> 1             0         0             0                        0
#> 2             0         0             0                        0
#>   Writing - review & editing Visualization Supervision Project administration
#> 1                          0             0           0                      0
#> 2                          0             0           0                      0
#>   Funding acquisition
#> 1                   0
#> 2                   0