[R-pkg-devel] NOTE about authors, no explanation

Hello,
I'm getting a NOTE on winbuilder, which doesn't come with much information:
Build log:> * using log directory 'd:/RCompile/CRANguest/R-devel/autodb.Rcheck'
* using R version 4.5.0 alpha (2025-03-15 r87978 ucrt)
* using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32
* R was compiled by
    gcc.exe (GCC) 14.2.0
    GNU Fortran (GCC) 14.2.0
* running under: Windows Server 2022 x64 (build 20348)
* using session charset: UTF-8
* checking for file 'autodb/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'autodb' version '2.3.0'
* package encoding: UTF-8
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: 'Mark Webster <markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk>'

New submission [etc., no other problems]
Author text in original DESCRIPTION:> Authors at R:?> ? ? person(> ? ? ? "Mark",> ? ? ? "Webster",?> ? ? ? email = "markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk",> ? ? ? role = c("aut", "cre"),> ? ? ? comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3351-0686")> ? ? )

If I build locally, the release (4.3.2) and development (2025-03-15 r87978 ucrt) versions do differ by the resulting Author DESCRIPTION field: the development version puts ORCID: in front of the Orcid URL.However, they both get the NOTE on Winbuilder.What is the error here?
Best Regards,Mark Webster
Dear Mark

That note is entirely expected. I believe it is just to help the CRAN 
maintainers.

Michael
Hello,
I'm getting a NOTE on winbuilder, which doesn't come with much information:
Build log:> * using log directory 'd:/RCompile/CRANguest/R-devel/autodb.Rcheck'
* using R version 4.5.0 alpha (2025-03-15 r87978 ucrt)
* using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32
* R was compiled by
     gcc.exe (GCC) 14.2.0
     GNU Fortran (GCC) 14.2.0
* running under: Windows Server 2022 x64 (build 20348)
* using session charset: UTF-8
* checking for file 'autodb/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'autodb' version '2.3.0'
* package encoding: UTF-8
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: 'Mark Webster <markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk>'

New submission [etc., no other problems]
Author text in original DESCRIPTION:> Authors at R:?> ? ? person(> ? ? ? "Mark",> ? ? ? "Webster",?> ? ? ? email = "markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk",> ? ? ? role = c("aut", "cre"),> ? ? ? comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3351-0686")> ? ? )

If I build locally, the release (4.3.2) and development (2025-03-15 r87978 ucrt) versions do differ by the resulting Author DESCRIPTION field: the development version puts ORCID: in front of the Orcid URL.However, they both get the NOTE on Winbuilder.What is the error here?
Best Regards,Mark Webster
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Mark Webster via R-package-devel <r-package-devel at r-project.org> ?????:
I'm getting a NOTE on winbuilder, which doesn't come with much
information:
Build log:
* using log directory
'd:/RCompile/CRANguest/R-devel/autodb.Rcheck'
* using R version 4.5.0 alpha (2025-03-15 r87978 ucrt)
* using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32
* R was compiled by
    gcc.exe (GCC) 14.2.0
    GNU Fortran (GCC) 14.2.0
* running under: Windows Server 2022 x64 (build 20348)
* using session charset: UTF-8
* checking for file 'autodb/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'autodb' version '2.3.0'
* package encoding: UTF-8
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: 'Mark Webster <markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk>'

New submission [etc., no other problems]  
Author text in original DESCRIPTION:> Authors at R:?> ? ? person(>
"Mark",> ? ? ? "Webster",?> ? ? ? email =
"markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk",> ? ? ? role = c("aut", "cre"),>
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3351-0686")> ? ? )
Could you please share a link to the check results? If it's
<https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/autodb_2.3.0_20250316_203825/>,
it seems to have passed the R CMD check. As Michael says, the NOTE
about the package being a new submission is expected.

I wasn't able to find the message you are being concerned with ("Author
text in original DESCRIPTION" and its substrings) anywhere in the R
source code or in the R-dev-web Subversion repository. Are you sure the
problem is not elsewhere?
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Best regards,
Ivan
Hi Michael and Ivan,

   > Could you please share a link to the check results? If it's> <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/autodb_2.3.0_20250316_203825/>,
it seems to have passed the R CMD check. As Michael says, the NOTE
about the package being a new submission is expected.
Yes, that's the one.
I wasn't able to find the message you are being concerned with ("Author
text in original DESCRIPTION" and its substrings) anywhere in the R
source code or in the R-dev-web Subversion repository. Are you sure the
problem is not elsewhere?
The relevant part of the two check logs is
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... [4s/6s] NOTE
Maintainer: ?Mark Webster <markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk>?The NOTE is the only thing mentioned WRT the pre-checks failing.I've copied the original email below.Looking at the email, the Windows build does look to have overrun the 10minchecktime limit, but when I've had that reported back before it's been after thepre-check, so I assume that's not the issue here.
That note is entirely expected. I believe it is just to help the CRAN> maintainers.
Given the above, would it be reasonable to reply to this as a false positive?
Best Regards,Mark

Original email:
Dear maintainer,>> package autodb_2.3.0.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically, please see the following pre-tests (additional issue checks):>> Windows: <>?https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/autodb_2.3.0_20250316_203825/Windows/00check.log>
Status: 1 NOTE
Debian: <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/autodb_2.3.0_20250316_203825/Debian/00check.log>
Status: 1 NOTE

Please fix all problems and resubmit a fixed version via the webform.
If you are not sure how to fix the problems shown, please ask for help on the R-package-devel mailing list:
<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel>
If you are fairly certain the rejection is a false positive, please reply-all to this message and explain.

More details are given in the directory:
<https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/autodb_2.3.0_20250316_203825/>
The files will be removed after roughly 7 days.

No strong reverse dependencies to be checked.

Best regards,
CRAN teams' auto-check service>
Flavor: r-devel-windows-x86_64
Check: CRAN incoming feasibility, Result: NA
? ?Maintainer: 'Mark Webster <markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk>'

? ?New submission

Flavor: r-devel-windows-x86_64
Check: Overall checktime, Result: NOTE
? ?Overall checktime 12 min > 10 min

Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
Check: CRAN incoming feasibility, Result: NOTE
? ?Maintainer: 'Mark Webster <markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk>'
?
? ?New submission

? Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:38:50 +0000 (UTC)
Mark Webster <markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk> ?????:
Flavor: r-devel-windows-x86_64
Check: Overall checktime, Result: NOTE
? ?Overall checktime 12 min > 10 min
I think you'll have to reduce the test datasets further:
https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/autodb_2.3.0_20250316_203825/Windows/examples_and_tests/tests/testthat.Rout
Best regards,
Ivan
I think you'll have to reduce the test datasets further:>?https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/autodb_2.3.0_20250316_203825/Windows/examples_and_tests/tests/testthat.Rout
Oh, definitely.I'll reduce them further and re-submit, thanks.Best Regards,Mark
Dear Mark

That note is entirely expected. I believe it is just to help the CRAN 
maintainers.

Michael

On 16/03/2025 22:06, Mark Webster via R-package-devel wrote:
Hello,
I'm getting a NOTE on winbuilder, which doesn't come with much 
information:
Build log:> * using log directory 'd:/RCompile/CRANguest/R-devel/ 
autodb.Rcheck'
* using R version 4.5.0 alpha (2025-03-15 r87978 ucrt)
* using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32
* R was compiled by
???? gcc.exe (GCC) 14.2.0
???? GNU Fortran (GCC) 14.2.0
* running under: Windows Server 2022 x64 (build 20348)
* using session charset: UTF-8
* checking for file 'autodb/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'autodb' version '2.3.0'
* package encoding: UTF-8
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: 'Mark Webster <markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk>'

New submission [etc., no other problems]
Author text in original DESCRIPTION:> Authors at R:?> ? ? person(>       
"Mark",> ? ? ? "Webster",?> ? ? ? email = 
"markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk",> ? ? ? role = c("aut", "cre"),>       
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3351-0686")> ? ? )
You should build with a recent version of R-dvel whic his also used for 
incoming checks on CRAN.

Best,
Uwe Ligges
If I build locally, the release (4.3.2) and development (2025-03-15 
r87978 ucrt) versions do differ by the resulting Author DESCRIPTION 
field: the development version puts ORCID: in front of the Orcid 
URL.However, they both get the NOTE on Winbuilder.What is the error here?
Best Regards,Mark Webster
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? Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:38:50 +0000 (UTC)
Mark Webster <markwebster204 at yahoo.co.uk> ?????:

Flavor: r-devel-windows-x86_64
Check: Overall checktime, Result: NOTE
 ? ?Overall checktime 12 min > 10 min
I think you'll have to reduce the test datasets further:
https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/autodb_2.3.0_20250316_203825/Windows/examples_and_tests/tests/testthat.Rout

Right, manly from

* checking tests ... [10m] OK
   Running 'testthat.R' [10m]

Please reduce the test timings by using
  - small toy data only
  - few iterations
  - or by running less important tests only conditionally if some 
environment variable is set that you only define on your machine?

Best,
Uwe Ligges
I think you'll have to reduce the test datasets further:>> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/autodb_2.3.0_20250316_203825/Windows/examples_and_tests/tests/testthat.Rout

Right, manly from

* checking tests ... [10m] OK
? ? Running 'testthat.R' [10m]

Please reduce the test timings by using
? ?- small toy data only
? ?- few iterations
? ?- or by running less important tests only conditionally if some 
environment variable is set that you only define on your machine?>

Best,>
Uwe Ligges
Thanks Uwe, I'll reduce further -- looks like there's a test runtime variance of a few minutes I need to account for.Best Regards,Mark