Author Metadata Management and Manuscript Front Matter R package authordown version 0.1.0 Manage author metadata and generate manuscript front matter. It produces title pages, acknowledgements, conflicts of interest, and contribution sections for large author lists, with helpers for validating and reading common spreadsheet formats. Software Depends: R (>= 3.5) Imports: openxlsx, rlang Suggests: knitr, pkgdown, rmarkdown, shiny, testthat (>= 3.0.0) Zhipeng Cao <zhipeng30@foxmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Zhipeng Cao [aut, cre] AGPL-3 2026-03-24 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=authordown doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.authordown