[R-pkg-devel] ORCID disappearing in auto-generated Authors: field?

[Ben Bolker]

  PS. This was for R 3.4.4: maybe that's relevant?  (OTOH the CRAN
oldrel checks aren't triggering this NOTE, and I can't find anything at
all recent in R's NEWS file ...

  I may invoke Clarke's third law ("any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws>) and take my
chances with submitting to CRAN ...

   cheers
    Ben Bolker


On 2019-03-05 2:46 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:
> 
> 
>  I'm getting this NOTE on r-hub's linux-x86_64-ubuntu-gcc platform. It
> seems weird because the Author field was automatically derived from
> Authors using R (there is no Author: field in the DESCRIPTION file ...)
> 
>   I think I'm going to write this off as a glitch (I haven't seen it on
> my own Linux or MacOS systems, or travis, or win-builder ...), but has
> anyone seen it before?  Am I doing something silly?
> 
> ====
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
> 
> 3815#> Author field differs from that derived from Authors using R
> 
> 3816#> Author: ‘Douglas Bates [aut] (), Martin Maechler [aut] (), Ben
> Bolker [aut, cre] (), Steven Walker [aut] (), Rune Haubo Bojesen
> Christensen [ctb] (), Henrik Singmann [ctb] (), Bin Dai [ctb], Fabian
> Scheipl [ctb] (), Gabor Grothendieck [ctb], Peter Green [ctb] (), John
> Fox [ctb]’
> 
> 3817#> Authors using R: ‘Douglas Bates [aut] (0000-0001-8316-9503), Martin
> Maechler [aut] (0000-0002-8685-9910), Ben Bolker [aut, cre]
> (0000-0002-2127-0443), Steven Walker [aut] (0000-0002-4394-9078), Rune
> Haubo Bojesen Christensen [ctb] (0000-0002-4494-3399), Henrik Singmann
> [ctb] (0000-0002-4842-3657), Bin Dai [ctb], Fabian Scheipl [ctb]
> (0000-0001-8172-3603), Gabor Grothendieck [ctb], Peter Green [ctb]
> (0000-0002-0238-9852), John Fox [ctb]’
> 
> The original field in the DESCRIPTION file is:
> 
> Authors using R: c(
>     person("Douglas","Bates", role="aut",
> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0001-8316-9503")),
>     person("Martin","Maechler", role="aut",
> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-8685-9910")),
>     person("Ben","Bolker",email="bbolker+lme4 using gmail.com",
> role=c("aut","cre"),
> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-2127-0443")),
>     person("Steven","Walker",role="aut",
> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-4394-9078")),
>     person("Rune Haubo Bojesen","Christensen", role="ctb",
> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-4494-3399")),
>     person("Henrik","Singmann", role="ctb",
> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-4842-3657")),
>     person("Bin", "Dai", role="ctb"),
>     person("Fabian", "Scheipl", role="ctb",
> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0001-8172-3603")),
>     person("Gabor", "Grothendieck", role="ctb"),
>     person("Peter", "Green", role="ctb",
> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-0238-9852")),
>     person("John", "Fox", role="ctb")
>     )
>