Update the article status

This is a general function for updating the status field in the DESCRIPTION.

update_status(article, status, comments = "", date = Sys.Date(), AE = is_AE(),
              replace = TRUE)

Arguments

article

Article id, like "2014-01"

status

new status to add, see details section for more

comments

Any additional comments

date

Date of status update. If omitted defaults to today.

AE

Logical, if TRUE, "AE: " is prefixed to the status

replace

logical, if the last status already matches status then the status is only updated if this flag is set to TRUE.

Details

For AEs, status is prefixed with "AE: " and valid status includes "AE: major revision", "AE: minor revision", "AE: accept", and "AE: reject".

For Editors, use accept(), reject(), and withdraw() to update the status as well as draft an email to the correspondence author.

Check valid status with valid_status.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
update_status("2020-114", status = "AE: major revision")
}