[R-pkg-devel] Win-builder: Author field differs from that derived from Authors@R

Wed, Feb 6, 2019 6:23 AM

The DESCRIPTION's Author field is auto-generated from Authors at R during R
CMD build. You are right, the format has slightly changed since R 3.3.3
(e.g., support for ORCID ID).

The CRAN repository policy says:

-> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html

Further to that, note that you are using a non-standard role ("con").
See the details in help("person") for the roles used in the context of R
packages: aut, com, ctr, ctb, cph, cre, dtc, fnd, ths, trl.

Cheers,

	Sebastian


Am 06.02.19 um 13:26 schrieb Ivan Krylov:

Hi!

I'm relying on Authors at R to generate the Author: and Maintainer:
headers. When checking my package at win-builder using R-unstable, I
got a NOTE that Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R:

Author: 'Miquel Garriga [aut, cph], Stefan Gerlach [aut, cph],
Ion Vasilief [aut, cph], Alex Kargovsky [aut, cph], Knut Franke
[cph], Alexander Semke [cph], Tilman Benkert [cph], Kasper Peeters
[cph], Russell Standish [cph], Ivan Krylov [cre, cph]'

Authors at R: 'Miquel Garriga [aut, cph], Stefan Gerlach [aut, cph],
Ion Vasilief [aut, cph], Alex Kargovsky [aut, cph], Knut Franke
[con, cph], Alexander Semke [con, cph], Tilman Benkert [con, cph],
Kasper Peeters [con, cph], Russell Standish [con, cph], Ivan Krylov
[cre, cph]'

Link to full check output:
https://win-builder.r-project.org/EWz9zWS0niO3/

The actual field from DESCRIPTION now looks like this:

Authors at R: c(person('Miquel', 'Garriga', email =
'gbmiquel at gmail.com', role = c('aut', 'cph')), person('Stefan',
'Gerlach', email = 'stefan.gerlach at uni-konstanz.de', role = c('aut',
'cph')), person('Ion', 'Vasilief', email = 'ion_vasilief at yahoo.fr',
role = c('aut', 'cph')), person('Alex', 'Kargovsky', email =
'kargovsky at yumr.phys.msu.su', role = c('aut', 'cph')),
person('Knut', 'Franke', email = 'Knut.Franke at gmx.de', role =
c('con', 'cph')), person('Alexander', 'Semke', email =
'alexander.semke at web.de', role = c('con', 'cph')), person('Tilman',
'Benkert', email = 'thzs at gmx.net', role = c('con', 'cph')),
person('Kasper', 'Peeters', email = 'kasper.peeters at aei.mpg.de',
role = c('con', 'cph')), person('Russell', 'Standish', role =
c('con', 'cph')), person('Ivan', 'Krylov', email =
'krylov.r00t at gmail.com', role = c('cre', 'cph')))

The version of R I'm currently using is 3.3.3 (2017-03-06) from Debian
stable, which might explain the differences in utils:::format.person.

What should I do to avoid the NOTE?

[R-pkg-devel] Win-builder: Author field differs from that derived from Authors@R

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