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[Uwe Ligges]

On 17.07.2025 16:42, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> 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.

Well, ideally you simply build and check with R-release or even better 
R-devel.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



> Best, Dirk
>