Hello, I'm trying to submit a package to CRAN and I'm getting the following note on Winbuilder (oldrelease). It's strange because this the same DESCRIPTION I've been using for while. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? https://win-builder.r-project.org/sUNBEuh3P71y/00check.log * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R Author: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (ORCID: < https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' Authors at R: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (< https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' Thankyou, John
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6 messages · John Harrold, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Uwe Ligges
On 17 July 2025 at 07:10, John Harrold wrote:
| Hello, | | I'm trying to submit a package to CRAN and I'm getting the following note | on Winbuilder (oldrelease). It's strange because this the same DESCRIPTION | I've been using for while. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? | | | https://win-builder.r-project.org/sUNBEuh3P71y/00check.log | | * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE | Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R | Author: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (ORCID: < | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' | Authors at R: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (< | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' This came up on this list a few days ago, the way the ORCID field is being formatted from the Authors at R entry changed in R 4.5.*: the previous R release did not inject 'ORCID: '. But you can ignore this difference, it will not hold up the processing of your package. Best, Dirk
dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
Thankyou Dirk.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 7:42?AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 17 July 2025 at 07:10, John Harrold wrote: | Hello, | | I'm trying to submit a package to CRAN and I'm getting the following note | on Winbuilder (oldrelease). It's strange because this the same DESCRIPTION | I've been using for while. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? | | | https://win-builder.r-project.org/sUNBEuh3P71y/00check.log | | * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE | Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R | Author: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (ORCID: < | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' | Authors at R: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (< | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' This came up on this list a few days ago, the way the ORCID field is being formatted from the Authors at R entry changed in R 4.5.*: the previous R release did not inject 'ORCID: '. But you can ignore this difference, it will not hold up the processing of your package. Best, Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
On 17.07.2025 16:42, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 17 July 2025 at 07:10, John Harrold wrote: | Hello, | | I'm trying to submit a package to CRAN and I'm getting the following note | on Winbuilder (oldrelease). It's strange because this the same DESCRIPTION | I've been using for while. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? | | | https://win-builder.r-project.org/sUNBEuh3P71y/00check.log | | * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE | Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R | Author: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (ORCID: < | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' | Authors at R: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (< | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' This came up on this list a few days ago, the way the ORCID field is being formatted from the Authors at R entry changed in R 4.5.*: the previous R release did not inject 'ORCID: '. But you can ignore this difference, it will not hold up the processing of your package.
Well, ideally you simply build and check with R-release or even better R-devel. Best, Uwe Ligges
Best, Dirk
Sorry for not being clearer. I checked on all three and it was only oldrelease that was giving me this note. On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 8:22?AM Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
On 17.07.2025 16:42, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 17 July 2025 at 07:10, John Harrold wrote: | Hello, | | I'm trying to submit a package to CRAN and I'm getting the following
note
| on Winbuilder (oldrelease). It's strange because this the same
DESCRIPTION
| I've been using for while. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong
here?
| | | https://win-builder.r-project.org/sUNBEuh3P71y/00check.log | | * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE | Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R | Author: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (ORCID: < | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' | Authors at R: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (< | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)' This came up on this list a few days ago, the way the ORCID field is
being
formatted from the Authors at R entry changed in R 4.5.*: the previous R
release
did not inject 'ORCID: '. But you can ignore this difference, it will not hold up the processing of your package.
Well, ideally you simply build and check with R-release or even better R-devel. Best, Uwe Ligges
Best, Dirk
That's fine, Uwe
On 17.07.2025 18:59, John Harrold wrote:
Sorry for not being clearer. I checked on all three and it was only
oldrelease that was giving me this note.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 8:22?AM Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-
dortmund.de <mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>> wrote:
On 17.07.2025 16:42, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 17 July 2025 at 07:10, John Harrold wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | I'm trying to submit a package to CRAN and I'm getting the
following note
> | on Winbuilder (oldrelease). It's strange because this the same
DESCRIPTION
> | I've been using for while. Can someone tell me what I'm doing
wrong here?
> |
> | * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
> | Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R
> |? ?Author:? ? 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (ORCID: <
> | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373 <https://
orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>>)'
> |? ?Authors at R: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (<
> | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373 <https://
orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>>)'
>
> This came up on this list a few days ago, the way the ORCID field
is being
> formatted from the Authors at R entry changed in R 4.5.*: the
previous R release
> did not inject 'ORCID: '. But you can ignore this difference, it
will not
> hold up the processing of your package.
Well, ideally you simply build and check with R-release or even better
R-devel.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
> Best, Dirk
>