Data frame with metadata about each author of a Project Gutenberg work.
Format
A tbl_df (see tibble::tibble()) with one row for each author, with
the columns
- gutenberg_author_id
Unique identifier for the author that can be used to join with the
gutenberg_metadatadataset (coming soon to this package)- author
The
agent_namefield from the original metadata- birthdate
Year of birth
- deathdate
Year of death
Details
To find the date on which this metadata was last updated, see
attr(gutenberg_authors, "date_updated").
Examples
# date last updated
attr(gutenberg_authors, "date_updated")
#> [1] "2024-09-23"