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

[William Revelle]

Uwe,
 Thanks.  I was hoping that you would say that.

Bill


> On Feb 25, 2018, at 5:55 PM, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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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Department of Psychology www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/
Northwestern University	   www.northwestern.edu/
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