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[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 17 July 2025 at 07:10, John Harrold wrote:
| Hello,
| 
| I'm trying to submit a package to CRAN and I'm getting the following note
| on Winbuilder (oldrelease). It's strange because this the same DESCRIPTION
| I've been using for while. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
| 
| 
| https://win-builder.r-project.org/sUNBEuh3P71y/00check.log
| 
| * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
| Author field differs from that derived from Authors using R
|   Author:    'John Harrold [aut, cre] (ORCID: <
| https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)'
|   Authors using R: 'John Harrold [aut, cre] (<
| https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4373>)'

This came up on this list a few days ago, the way the ORCID field is being
formatted from the Authors using R entry changed in R 4.5.*: the previous R release
did not inject 'ORCID: '. But you can ignore this difference, it will not
hold up the processing of your package.

Best, Dirk

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