Message-ID: <29F01C5E-CF3D-4B6E-A34E-B9EC50D15099@revelle.net>
Date: 2018-02-25T23:39:17Z
From: William Revelle
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] author field in description problem
In-Reply-To: <CALEXWq24kaBzxB1fjaYonQCYZW51b4=PgzF87NLBUguBQcrfQQ@mail.gmail.com>
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)
> 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
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