[R-pkg-devel] Win-builder: Author field differs from that derived from Authors maybe from R

[Sebastian Meyer]

The DESCRIPTION's Author field is auto-generated from Authors using R during R
CMD build. You are right, the format has slightly changed since R 3.3.3
(e.g., support for ORCID ID).

The CRAN repository policy says:

> Uploads must be source tarballs created by R CMD build and following
> the PACKAGE_VERSION.tar.gz naming scheme. This should be done with
> current R-patched or the current release of R.

-> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html

Further to that, note that you are using a non-standard role ("con").
See the details in help("person") for the roles used in the context of R
packages: aut, com, ctr, ctb, cph, cre, dtc, fnd, ths, trl.

Cheers,

	Sebastian


Am 06.02.19 um 13:26 schrieb Ivan Krylov:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm relying on Authors using R to generate the Author: and Maintainer:
> headers. When checking my package at win-builder using R-unstable, I
> got a NOTE that Author field differs from that derived from Authors using R:
> 
>>> Author: 'Miquel Garriga [aut, cph], Stefan Gerlach [aut, cph],
>>> Ion Vasilief [aut, cph], Alex Kargovsky [aut, cph], Knut Franke
>>> [cph], Alexander Semke [cph], Tilman Benkert [cph], Kasper Peeters
>>> [cph], Russell Standish [cph], Ivan Krylov [cre, cph]'
> 
>>> Authors using R: 'Miquel Garriga [aut, cph], Stefan Gerlach [aut, cph],
>>> Ion Vasilief [aut, cph], Alex Kargovsky [aut, cph], Knut Franke
>>> [con, cph], Alexander Semke [con, cph], Tilman Benkert [con, cph],
>>> Kasper Peeters [con, cph], Russell Standish [con, cph], Ivan Krylov
>>> [cre, cph]'
> 
> Link to full check output:
> https://win-builder.r-project.org/EWz9zWS0niO3/
> 
> The actual field from DESCRIPTION now looks like this:
> 
>>> Authors using R: c(person('Miquel', 'Garriga', email =
>>> 'gbmiquel using gmail.com', role = c('aut', 'cph')), person('Stefan',
>>> 'Gerlach', email = 'stefan.gerlach using uni-konstanz.de', role = c('aut',
>>> 'cph')), person('Ion', 'Vasilief', email = 'ion_vasilief using yahoo.fr',
>>> role = c('aut', 'cph')), person('Alex', 'Kargovsky', email =
>>> 'kargovsky using yumr.phys.msu.su', role = c('aut', 'cph')),
>>> person('Knut', 'Franke', email = 'Knut.Franke using gmx.de', role =
>>> c('con', 'cph')), person('Alexander', 'Semke', email =
>>> 'alexander.semke using web.de', role = c('con', 'cph')), person('Tilman',
>>> 'Benkert', email = 'thzs using gmx.net', role = c('con', 'cph')),
>>> person('Kasper', 'Peeters', email = 'kasper.peeters using aei.mpg.de',
>>> role = c('con', 'cph')), person('Russell', 'Standish', role =
>>> c('con', 'cph')), person('Ivan', 'Krylov', email =
>>> 'krylov.r00t using gmail.com', role = c('cre', 'cph')))
> 
> The version of R I'm currently using is 3.3.3 (2017-03-06) from Debian
> stable, which might explain the differences in utils:::format.person.
> 
> What should I do to avoid the NOTE?
>