Barry,

sorry did not anticipate the behaving of the emailer. I could reproduce your error with the DESCRIPTION file below with a helloworld pkg

Package: test
Type: Package
Title: What the Package Does (Title Case)
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: c(person("Roman", "Flury", email = "roman.fl...@math.uzh.ch", role = c("aut", "cre")),              person("Test", "person", email = "testm...@test.org", role = c("fnd", "rth")))
Description: Short description to describe this package.
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports: eha (>= 2.5.1),
    ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
    survival (>= 2.41-3),
    reshape2 (>= 1.4.3),
    stats (>= 3.5.0)
RoxygenNote: 6.0.1

this passes R CMD check --as-cran on a unix system, but not on windwos. The problem seems to be the role "rth", which is also not listed in ?person. What does this role stand for?

best, Roman

On 25.07.2018 16:21, Eggleston, Barry wrote:
Roman,

Not sure why my emailer added all those <mailto:a...@bbb.ccc> items, but none of them 
are in my original DESCRIPTION file.  So my Maintainer line, for example, simply reads 
Barry Eggleston <email address>, where email address is simply beggles...@rti.org.

Thanks for the observation,
Barry


-----Original Message-----
From: Roman Flury <roman.fl...@math.uzh.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 9:42 AM
To: Eggleston, Barry <beggles...@rti.org>
Cc: Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com>; r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

Hello,

after https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html the 
‘Maintainer’ field should give a single name followed by a valid (RFC 2822) 
email address in angle brackets.
but beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org> is not a valid RFC 2822 email 
address, you could check this for instance with https://proxy2.de/email-validation.php

you could omit the 'Maintainer' field, since a suitable ‘Authors@R’ field is 
given..
does this solve your problem?

best, Roman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eggleston, Barry" <beggles...@rti.org>
To: "Hugh Parsonage" <hugh.parson...@gmail.com>
Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 3:00:35 PM
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

Below is a copy of my DESCRIPTION file:

Package: BayesCTDesign
Type: Package
Title: Two Arm Bayesian Clinical Trial Design with and Without Historical 
Control Data
Version: 1.0.0
Authors@R: c(
     person("Barry", "Eggleston", email = "beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org>", role = 
c("cre", "aut")),
                person("Doug", "Wilson", email = 
"doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com<mailto:doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com>", role = c("aut")),
                person("Becky", "McNeil", email = 
"rmcn...@rti.org<mailto:rmcn...@rti.org>", role = c("aut")),
     person("Joseph", "Ibrahim", email = 
"jibra...@email.unc.edu<mailto:jibra...@email.unc.edu>", role = c("aut")),
                person("Diane", "Catellier", email = 
"dcatell...@rti.org<mailto:dcatell...@rti.org>", role = c("fnd", "rth")))
Maintainer: Barry Eggleston <beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org>>
Description: A set of functions to help clinical trial researchers calculate 
power and sample size for two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical trials that do 
or do not incorporate historical control data.  At some point during the design 
process, a clinical trial researcher who is designing a basic two-arm Bayesian 
randomized clinical trial needs to make decisions about power and sample size 
within the context of hypothesized treatment effects.  Through simulation, the 
\code{simple_sim()} function will estimate power and other user specified 
clinical trial characteristics at user specified sample sizes given user 
defined scenarios about treatment effect,control group characteristics, and 
outcome.  If the clinical trial researcher has access to historical control 
data, then the researcher can design a two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical 
trial that incorporates the historical data.  In such a case, the researcher 
needs to work through the potential consequences of historical and randomiz  ed 
control differences on trial characteristics, in addition to working through 
issues regarding power in the context of sample size, treatment effect size, 
and outcome.  If a researcher designs a clinical trial that will incorporate 
historical control data, the researcher needs the randomized controls to be 
from the same population as the historical controls.  What if this is not the 
case when the designed trial is implemented?  During the design phase, the 
researcher needs to investigate the negative effects of possible 
historic/randomized control differences on power, type one error, and other 
trial characteristics.  Using this information, the researcher should design 
the trial to mitigate these negative effects.  Through simulation, the 
\code{historic_sim()} function will estimate power and other user specified 
clinical trial characteristics at user specified sample sizes given user 
defined scenarios about historical and randomized control differences as well 
as treatment effec  ts and outcomes.  The results from \code{historic_sim()} 
and \code{simple_sim()} can be printed with \code{print_table()} and graphed 
with \code{plot_table()} methods.  Outcomes considered are Gaussian, Poisson, 
Bernoulli, Lognormal, Weibull, and Piecewise Exponential.
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports: eha (>= 2.5.1),
     ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
     survival (>= 2.41-3),
     reshape2 (>= 1.4.3),
                stats (>= 3.5.0)
RoxygenNote: 6.0.1


From: Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 10:12 PM
To: Eggleston, Barry <beggles...@rti.org>
Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

Thank you. Could you provide the contents of DESCRIPTION too? That might 
provide the richest clue. If you have a link to an online copy of the package 
that could be helpful too.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 12:01 Eggleston, Barry 
<beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org>> wrote:
I am working through my first package submission.  When I checked my package 
using devtools::build_win(), I got no errors and two notes.  One note is simply 
the expected note that my package is a new submission.  My second note involves 
DESCRIPTION meta-information, but nothing is printed so I don't know what to 
focus on.  I have copied the important parts of my 00check.log from CRAN below 
for context.  What areas of my DESCRIPTION file might create such an empty 
note?  Thanks in advance for any help you might give me.

* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: 'Barry Eggleston 
<beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org><mailto:beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org>>>'

New submission
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking if there is a namespace ... OK
* checking for hidden files and directories ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking whether package 'BayesCTDesign' can be installed ... OK
* checking installed package size ... OK
* checking package directory ... OK
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE

* checking top-level files ... OK
* checking for left-over files ... OK
* checking index information ... OK
* checking package subdirectories ... OK
* checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
* checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
* loading checks for arch 'i386'
** checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
** checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
** checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
** checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
** checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
** checking loading without being on the library search path ... OK
** checking use of S3 registration ... OK
* loading checks for arch 'x64'
** checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
** checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
** checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
** checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
** checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
** checking loading without being on the library search path ... OK
** checking use of S3 registration ... OK
* checking dependencies in R code ... OK
* checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
* checking replacement functions ... OK
* checking foreign function calls ... OK
* checking R code for possible problems ... [41s] OK
* checking Rd files ... OK
* checking Rd metadata ... OK
* checking Rd line widths ... OK
* checking Rd cross-references ... OK
* checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
* checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
* checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
* checking Rd contents ... OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... OK
* checking examples ...
** running examples for arch 'i386' ... [19s] OK
** running examples for arch 'x64' ... [22s] OK
* checking PDF version of manual ... OK
* DONE
Status: 2 NOTEs

Barry


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