[Rd] WRE Date field & CRAN

[Lluís Revilla]

Hi,

On Writing R Extensions there is a footnote [6] about the "Date" field on
the DESCRIPTION file being required by CRAN:

"required by CRAN, so checked by R CMD check --as-cran"

I think this is no longer up to date, as I've seen packages published on
CRAN without it.
This might be because now the Packaged date is checked too (around
src/tools/R/QC.R line 7998).

Best,

Lluís


[6]: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-exts.html#FOOT6

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