Copy the authors into the licences

The authors in the YAML of manuscript.qmd are the copyright holders of the project: this writes them into the copyright line of LICENSE-CODE.txt (MIT) and into the licence notice of README.md, between its <!-- license:start --> and <!-- license:end --> markers. LICENSE.txt (CC BY 4.0) is the official text and is never touched. Every render does this on its own; it can be run as many times as you like.

Usage

sync_licenses(year = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y"), quiet = FALSE, path = NULL)

Arguments

year

The year of the copyright line. This year by default.

quiet

TRUE says nothing.

path

The project, or any folder inside it. Left out, the one set_paper() named; with none named, this stops before writing: it writes into the project, and easypaper never takes the working directory for it.

Value

The holders as written, invisibly.

See also

sync_metadata(), which does the same for the data deposit.

Examples

dir <- file.path(tempdir(), "my_paper")
create_paper(dir, authors = c("Ada Lovelace", "Alan Turing"), git = FALSE)
#> Project created: /tmp/Rtmp92gqjt/my_paper
#>   1. open my_paper.Rproj
#>   2. library(easypaper)
#>   3. set_paper(".")      # the project to work on, once a session
#>   4. render_html()      # see ?render for every command
sync_licenses(path = dir)
#> Copyright holders: Ada Lovelace & Alan Turing (2026)
readLines(file.path(dir, "LICENSE-CODE.txt"), n = 3)
#> [1] "MIT License"                                  
#> [2] ""                                             
#> [3] "Copyright (c) 2026 Ada Lovelace & Alan Turing"
unlink(dir, recursive = TRUE)