[R-pkg-devel] author field in description problem

[Uwe Ligges]

On 26.02.2018 00:39, William Revelle wrote:
> I did remove the author and maintainer fields. I have only the Authors at R field.  However it still throws that Note (in R 3.4.3)

Ignore it. R-3.4.3 doid not know about the ORCID feature, hence goves 
this note.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



> 
>> On Feb 25, 2018, at 5:20 PM, Iñaki Úcar <i.ucar86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2018-02-25 23:49 GMT+01:00 William Revelle <lists at revelle.net>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to take advantage of the Authors at R: field in my description file for the psych package to add an ORCID address (as discussed in the R journal).
>>>
>>> When I R CMD check with R development on my Mac, or with win builder it passes all checks. (R Under development (unstable) (2018-02-23 r74298)  )
>>>
>>> But, when I test with current R on a Mac or at win builder it throws a note:
>>>
>>> Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R
>>>   Author:    'William Revelle [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4880-9610>)'
>>>   Authors at R: 'William Revelle [aut, cre] (0000-0003-4880-9610)’
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a way to fix this or should I just go ahead and submit to CRAN with a note saying that it works on R development but gives a note on R 3.4.3 ?
>>>
>>> The offending line in the Description file seems to be
>>>
>>> Authors at R:  person("William", "Revelle", role =c("aut","cre"), email="revelle at northwestern.edu", comment=c(ORCID  = "0000-0003-4880-9610") )
>>>
>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>> You can use ‘Authors at R’ only to fix this NOTE. According to "Writing R
>> Extensions":
>>
>> "Both ‘Author’ and ‘Maintainer’ fields can be omitted if a suitable
>> ‘Authors at R’ field is given. [...] The ‘Author’ and ‘Maintainer’ fields
>> are auto-generated from it if needed when building or installing."
>>
>> Iñaki
>>
>>>
>>> Bill
> 
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