DESCRIPTION "Authors@R" field for organizations

Question

What's the proper way to represent an organization in the Authors@R field of an R package's DESCRIPTION file? I didn't find an answer in the following places:

R Packages book

http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/description.html#author mentions it only tangentially when discussing roles in the field:

cph: copyright holder. This is used if the copyright is held by someone other than the author, typically a company (i.e. the author’s employer).

However, there's no mention of whether/how a person entity should still be created in this case, or whether there's an alternative approach.

Writing R Extensions docs

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#The-DESCRIPTION-file doesn't mention organizations.

Answer 1

I found an answer in the person function docs:

For persons which are not natural persons (e.g., institutions, companies, etc.) it is appropriate to use given (but not family) for the name, e.g., person("R Core Team", role = "aut").

In my case, I'll do it like this:

Authors@R: c(
  person("My Organization, Inc.", role=c("aut", "cre", cph)),
  person("Ken", "Williams", role="cre"))