[Rd] legitimate use of :::

[Hadley Wickham]

> I would say that you should certainly state it in the man page, and have
> something in the DESCRIPTION file as well.  It might be something like
>
> Author:  Duncan Murdoch, with code from others (see the man pages)
>
> However, I just looked at rgl (a package I maintain), and I see we didn't do
> that.  We have a separate README file listing other credits.

The feedback that I've been getting from CRAN maintainers lately is
that you have to include all source code contributors in the authors
field.

Hadley

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