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

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Sigbert Klinke 
>>>>>     on Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:43:31 +0200 writes:

    > 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?

Well, that's definitely easy to answer:

Follow *the* reference, the 'R Extensions' manual,
and use   R CMD build ...


    > Thanks Sigbert

    > -- 
    > https://hu.berlin/sk

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