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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 06.09.2024 14:43, Sigbert Klinke wrote:
> 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?

Ignore for now:
This is from a very recent change in R-devel and should not have been 
flagged by the checks, now fixed.
The idea is to allow for more than only ORCID and hence give labels to 
these ids. This is now done automatically when the Author field is 
generated from Authors using R by R CMD build, and unfortunately got flagged 
by our checks that use a very recent version of R-devel from last night.

In short: Simply submit again, the note will be gone.

Best,
Uwe Ligges