[R-pkg-devel] How to refer to COPYRIGHTS and AUTHORS extra files in DESCRIPTION
Hi Yohann, I had a similar situation with my first package. I used Author + Maintainer field instead Authors at R and I added the inst/AUTHORS to Author and my email to the Maintainer field. In the list of author names (and I have a lot of them in cgal4h), make sure that you also define the different roles (i.e ctb, cph, etc). You can access the metadata here and the Gitlab repository there https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cgal4h Hope it helps. Ahmadou
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:30 PM git demont <git.demont at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, Sorry for asking again, but I got absolutely no advice on how to correctly refer to extra copyrights and authors files in package DESCRIPTION. I know this can be considered as impolite and I don't want to do so. So, I waited one week until sending the present message and I promise I will not send another to ask for the same thing after this one. Best, Yohann On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 4:04 PM git demont <git.demont at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, I am developing a package called 'IFC'. https://github.com/gitdemont/IFC/ <https://github.com/gitdemont/IFC/tree/v0.0.7> Last submission (v0.0.7) was almost the final one to get it CRAN https://github.com/gitdemont/IFC/tree/v0.0.7 It was manually checked and it should be accepted if I removed a dontrun (that I unfortunately forgot). For the next submission ( I hope it will be the good one ), in addition
to
fixing the dontrun, I would like to include a small modification that was not asked. I would like to avoid another round of submission/review by introducing an issue that was not here. In DESCRIPTION of 'IFC', I am inviting users to refer to files for copyrights and authorship. "See file inst/COPYRIGHTS and file inst/AUTHORS for a list of copyright holders and authors" However, I am not sure whether I should say 'inst/COPYRIGHTS' and 'inst/AUTHORS' because these files are in the 'inst/' directory of the built tar.gz, or if I should only refer to 'COPYRIGHTS' and 'AUTHORS' (without inst/) because once installed these files will be at the root of IFC library directory. The same question olds for "Copyright: file inst/COPYRIGHTS". In CRAN policies, one can read: "Where copyrights are held by an entity other than the package authors, this should preferably be indicated via ?cph? roles in the ?Authors at R? field, or using a ?Copyright? field (if necessary referring to an inst/COPYRIGHTS file)." In 'RcppMsgPack' for instance we have: - in the description: "See the files 'COPYRIGHTS' and 'AUTHORS' for a
full
list of copyright holders and contributors to 'msgpack-c'." - in the copyrights: "inst/COPYRIGHTS". Best, Yohann
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