I did remove the author and maintainer fields. I have only the Authors@R field. However it still throws that Note (in R 3.4.3)
> On Feb 25, 2018, at 5:20 PM, Iñaki Úcar <i.uca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2018-02-25 23:49 GMT+01:00 William Revelle <li...@revelle.net>: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to take advantage of the Authors@R: field in my description file >> for the psych package to add an ORCID address (as discussed in the R >> journal). >> >> When I R CMD check with R development on my Mac, or with win builder it >> passes all checks. (R Under development (unstable) (2018-02-23 r74298) ) >> >> But, when I test with current R on a Mac or at win builder it throws a note: >> >> Author field differs from that derived from Authors@R >> Author: 'William Revelle [aut, cre] >> (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4880-9610>)' >> Authors@R: 'William Revelle [aut, cre] (0000-0003-4880-9610)’ >> >> >> Is there a way to fix this or should I just go ahead and submit to CRAN with >> a note saying that it works on R development but gives a note on R 3.4.3 ? >> >> The offending line in the Description file seems to be >> >> Authors@R: person("William", "Revelle", role =c("aut","cre"), >> email="reve...@northwestern.edu", comment=c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4880-9610") ) >> >> Thanks for any suggestions. > > You can use ‘Authors@R’ only to fix this NOTE. According to "Writing R > Extensions": > > "Both ‘Author’ and ‘Maintainer’ fields can be omitted if a suitable > ‘Authors@R’ field is given. [...] The ‘Author’ and ‘Maintainer’ fields > are auto-generated from it if needed when building or installing." > > Iñaki > >> >> Bill William Revelle personality-project.org/revelle.html Professor personality-project.org Department of Psychology www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/ Northwestern University www.northwestern.edu/ Use R for psychology personality-project.org/r It is 2 1/2 minutes to midnight www.thebulletin.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
