# BACKGROUND I maintain the 'oce' package, and to avoid problems when I submit a new version, I do some remote tests using * devtools::check_mac_release() * devtools::check_win_release() * devtools::check_win_devel() * devtools::check_win_oldrelease() # problem I found that the mac upload fails, but it doesn't state why, and I'll ignore that for now, assuming it to be a temporary problem. My concern is with the last test, i.e. on system R version 4.4.3 (2025-02-28 ucrt) It produces one NOTE. Looking into this, I see the following in the 00check.log file: * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R Author: 'Dan Kelley [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-5911>), Clark Richards [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7833-206X>), Chantelle Layton [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3199-5763>, curl() coauthor), British Geological Survey [ctb, cph] (magnetic-field subroutine)' Authors at R: 'Dan Kelley [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-5911>), Clark Richards [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7833-206X>), Chantelle Layton [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3199-5763>, curl() coauthor), British Geological Survey [ctb, cph] (magnetic-field subroutine)' This relates to the following lines in my DESCRIPTION file. # QUESTION Should I be doing something about this note? Note that I have the following in my DESCRIPTION file. Authors at R: c( person(given="Dan", family="Kelley", email="Dan.Kelley at Dal.Ca", role=c("aut", "cre"), comment=c(ORCID="0000-0001-7808-5911")), person(given="Clark", family="Richards", email="clark.richards at gmail.com", role=c("aut"), comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-7833-206X")), person(given="Chantelle", family="Layton", email="chantelle.layton at dal.ca", role=c("ctb"), comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-3199-5763", "curl() coauthor")), person(given="British Geological Survey", role=c("ctb","cph"), comment="magnetic-field subroutine"))
[R-pkg-devel] Should I ignore a remote-check NOTE on 'Author field differs from Authors@R'?
2 messages · Dan Kelley, Ivan Krylov
On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:50:44 +0000
Daniel Kelley <kelley at dal.ca> wrote:
My concern is with the last test, i.e. on system R version 4.4.3 (2025-02-28 ucrt) It produces one NOTE. Looking into this, I see the following in the 00check.log file: * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R Author: 'Dan Kelley [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-5911>), Clark Richards [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7833-206X>), Chantelle Layton [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3199-5763>, curl() coauthor), British Geological Survey [ctb, cph] (magnetic-field subroutine)' Authors at R: 'Dan Kelley [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-5911>), Clark Richards [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7833-206X>), Chantelle Layton [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3199-5763>, curl() coauthor), British Geological Survey [ctb, cph] (magnetic-field subroutine)'
This is a false positive. The Author: field in your source package has
the correct text (it says ORCID: <...>), but R-4.4.3 doesn't realise
that because it predates the change to how the Author: field is
formatted.
R-4.4.x:
person("Dan", "Kelley", comment = c(ORCID =
"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-5911"))
# [1] "Dan Kelley (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-5911>)"
R-4.5.x:
person("Dan", "Kelley", comment = c(ORCID =
"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-5911"))
# [1] "Dan Kelley (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-5911>)"
Best regards, Ivan