Message-ID: <20c37db7-8021-9029-61a8-074fb7608429@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
Date: 2018-02-25T23:55:43Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] author field in description problem
In-Reply-To: <29F01C5E-CF3D-4B6E-A34E-B9EC50D15099@revelle.net>
On 26.02.2018 00:39, William Revelle wrote:
> I did remove the author and maintainer fields. I have only the Authors at R field. However it still throws that Note (in R 3.4.3)
Ignore it. R-3.4.3 doid not know about the ORCID feature, hence goves
this note.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
>
>> On Feb 25, 2018, at 5:20 PM, I?aki ?car <i.ucar86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2018-02-25 23:49 GMT+01:00 William Revelle <lists at revelle.net>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to take advantage of the Authors at R: field in my description file for the psych package to add an ORCID address (as discussed in the R journal).
>>>
>>> When I R CMD check with R development on my Mac, or with win builder it passes all checks. (R Under development (unstable) (2018-02-23 r74298) )
>>>
>>> But, when I test with current R on a Mac or at win builder it throws a note:
>>>
>>> Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R
>>> Author: 'William Revelle [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4880-9610>)'
>>> Authors at R: 'William Revelle [aut, cre] (0000-0003-4880-9610)?
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a way to fix this or should I just go ahead and submit to CRAN with a note saying that it works on R development but gives a note on R 3.4.3 ?
>>>
>>> The offending line in the Description file seems to be
>>>
>>> Authors at R: person("William", "Revelle", role =c("aut","cre"), email="revelle at northwestern.edu", comment=c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4880-9610") )
>>>
>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>> You can use ?Authors at R? only to fix this NOTE. According to "Writing R
>> Extensions":
>>
>> "Both ?Author? and ?Maintainer? fields can be omitted if a suitable
>> ?Authors at R? field is given. [...] The ?Author? and ?Maintainer? fields
>> are auto-generated from it if needed when building or installing."
>>
>> I?aki
>>
>>>
>>> Bill
>
> William Revelle personality-project.org/revelle.html
> Professor personality-project.org
> Department of Psychology www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/
> Northwestern University www.northwestern.edu/
> Use R for psychology personality-project.org/r
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