This function converts full author lists to person objects.

It can be used to import full author person objects into bib objects returned from RefManageR::ReadGS. This further compresses the full author names into just the first character for given and middle names.

Usage

convert_complete_author(complete_coauthor_string)

Arguments

complete_coauthor_string

A character string of the full author list separated by ,s of the form e.g., James Robert Junker, John Jacob Jingle Heimer-Schimdt, etc.