Coerce bib authors column to list of data frames

Handles mixed input: structured [{given, family}] arrays (read as data frames by jsonlite) and legacy pipe-separated strings. Returns a list column suitable for storing in a data frame.

Usage

.coerce_bib_authors(col)

Arguments

col

a list column (from jsonlite) or character vector of authors

Value

a list where each element is a data frame with given/family