I believe it's just a flag to notify that the author string has changed.
You might need to send a confirmation email that yes you did mean to
change, it is just a double check for both ends. I changed my email for a
package once for some reason and made the confirmation.

Cheers, Mike
On 9 Mar 2014 12:06, "S Ellison" <S.Ellison@lgcgroup.com> wrote:

> Using R 3.0.3 and Rtools 31, I now see a Note (reproduced on my R-forge
> checks) of the form
>
> * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
> Maintainer: 'firstname A B lastname '
>
> where A and B are middle initials.
>
> I can change to a 'firstname lastname' form or 'INITS lastname' form and
> that removes the above Note*, but I then get a Note warning of maintainer
> change.
>
> Is either Note going to get in the way of CRAN submission? (And if one of
> them will, which one?)
>
> S Ellison
>
> *A minor aside: I couldn't find any documented reason for that, or indeed
> any restriction on the format of a maintaner's name other than 'name first
> email second in <>'; perhaps I missed something there?
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