[Rd] R CMD check and DESCRIPTION file with Authors at R only

[Martyn Plummer]

You need to run "R CMD build" on your package, then run "R CMD check" on
the resulting tarball, as recommended in section 1.3.1 of the "Writing R
Extensions" manual.

The tarball will contain a version of the DESCRIPTION file with Author
and Maintainer fields built from the Authors at R field.

Martyn

On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 06:34 -0500, Mathew McLean wrote:
> Section 1.1 of R-exts mentions that the Maintainer and Author fields can be
> omitted from the DESCRIPTION file if Authors at R is supplied.  However, R CMD
> check does not seem to like this.
> 
> package.skeleton("foo")
> desc <- readLines("foo/DESCRIPTION")
> desc[6] <- "Authors at R: person('Mathew', 'McLean', email = 'name at example.com',
> role = c('aut', 'cre'))"
> desc <- desc[-7]
> writeLines(desc, "foo/DESCRIPTION")
> system2("R", args = c("CMD", "check", "foo"))
> * using log directory ‘/home/grad/mmclean/foo.Rcheck’
> * using R version 3.0.3 (2014-03-06)
> * using platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> * using session charset: UTF-8
> * checking for file ‘foo/DESCRIPTION’ ... ERROR
> Required fields missing or empty:
>   ‘Author’ ‘Maintainer’
> 
> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.3 (2014-03-06)
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> 
> ​This also happens for R Under development (unstable) (2014-04-10 r65396)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)​
> 
> 
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