[R-pkg-devel] devtools::build() and Authors maybe from R

[Sigbert Klinke]

Hi,

upon resubmitting my package to CRAN, I received the following note:



Author field differs from that derived from Authors using R



Author: 'Sigbert Klinke [aut, cre] 
(https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3337-1863), Jekaterina Zukovska [ctb] 
(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7753-9210)'

Authors using R: 'Sigbert Klinke [aut, cre] (ORCID: 
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3337-1863), Jekaterina Zukovska [ctb] 
(ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7753-9210)'

Since my DESCRIPTION file only includes the Authors using R field, I was 
initially confused.



However, after inspecting the *.tgz file generated with 
devtools::build(), I found that both fields (Author and Authors using R) were 
indeed present in the DESCRIPTION file inside the *.tgz. This was also 
the case with older *.tgz files, but CRAN hadn’t flagged it before.



As a workaround, I replaced Authors using R with separate Author and 
Maintainer fields.



Do you have any other suggestions on how to resolve this?

Thanks Sigbert

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