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On 17.07.2025 16:42, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 17 July 2025 at 07:10, John Harrold wrote: | Hello, | | I'm trying to submit a package to CRAN and I'm getting the following note | on Winbuilder (oldrelease). It's strange because this the same DESCRIPTION | I've been using for while. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? | | | https://win-builder.r-project.org/sUNBEuh3P71y/00check.log | | * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE | Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R | Author: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (ORCID: < | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' | Authors at R: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (< | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' This came up on this list a few days ago, the way the ORCID field is being formatted from the Authors at R entry changed in R 4.5.*: the previous R release did not inject 'ORCID: '. But you can ignore this difference, it will not hold up the processing of your package.
Well, ideally you simply build and check with R-release or even better R-devel. Best, Uwe Ligges
Best, Dirk