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@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ Type: Package
 Title: Estimation of R0 and Real-Time Reproduction Number from Epidemics
 Version: 1.3-0
 Date: 2023-03-06
-Author: Pierre-Yves Boelle, Thomas Obadia
+Authors@R: c(
+    person("Pierre-Yves", "Boelle", role = "aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5367-8232")), 
+    person("Thomas", "Obadia", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "thomas.obadia@pasteur.fr")
+  )
 URL: https://github.com/tobadia/R0
-Maintainer: Thomas Obadia <thomas.obadia@pasteur.fr>
 Depends:
     R (>= 2.13.0)
 Imports: