The DESCRIPTION's Author field is auto-generated from Authors@R during R CMD build. You are right, the format has slightly changed since R 3.3.3 (e.g., support for ORCID ID).
The CRAN repository policy says: > Uploads must be source tarballs created by R CMD build and following > the PACKAGE_VERSION.tar.gz naming scheme. This should be done with > current R-patched or the current release of R. -> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html Further to that, note that you are using a non-standard role ("con"). See the details in help("person") for the roles used in the context of R packages: aut, com, ctr, ctb, cph, cre, dtc, fnd, ths, trl. Cheers, Sebastian Am 06.02.19 um 13:26 schrieb Ivan Krylov: > Hi! > > I'm relying on Authors@R to generate the Author: and Maintainer: > headers. When checking my package at win-builder using R-unstable, I > got a NOTE that Author field differs from that derived from Authors@R: > >>> Author: 'Miquel Garriga [aut, cph], Stefan Gerlach [aut, cph], >>> Ion Vasilief [aut, cph], Alex Kargovsky [aut, cph], Knut Franke >>> [cph], Alexander Semke [cph], Tilman Benkert [cph], Kasper Peeters >>> [cph], Russell Standish [cph], Ivan Krylov [cre, cph]' > >>> Authors@R: 'Miquel Garriga [aut, cph], Stefan Gerlach [aut, cph], >>> Ion Vasilief [aut, cph], Alex Kargovsky [aut, cph], Knut Franke >>> [con, cph], Alexander Semke [con, cph], Tilman Benkert [con, cph], >>> Kasper Peeters [con, cph], Russell Standish [con, cph], Ivan Krylov >>> [cre, cph]' > > Link to full check output: > https://win-builder.r-project.org/EWz9zWS0niO3/ > > The actual field from DESCRIPTION now looks like this: > >>> Authors@R: c(person('Miquel', 'Garriga', email = >>> 'gbmiq...@gmail.com', role = c('aut', 'cph')), person('Stefan', >>> 'Gerlach', email = 'stefan.gerl...@uni-konstanz.de', role = c('aut', >>> 'cph')), person('Ion', 'Vasilief', email = 'ion_vasil...@yahoo.fr', >>> role = c('aut', 'cph')), person('Alex', 'Kargovsky', email = >>> 'kargov...@yumr.phys.msu.su', role = c('aut', 'cph')), >>> person('Knut', 'Franke', email = 'knut.fra...@gmx.de', role = >>> c('con', 'cph')), person('Alexander', 'Semke', email = >>> 'alexander.se...@web.de', role = c('con', 'cph')), person('Tilman', >>> 'Benkert', email = 't...@gmx.net', role = c('con', 'cph')), >>> person('Kasper', 'Peeters', email = 'kasper.peet...@aei.mpg.de', >>> role = c('con', 'cph')), person('Russell', 'Standish', role = >>> c('con', 'cph')), person('Ivan', 'Krylov', email = >>> 'krylov.r...@gmail.com', role = c('cre', 'cph'))) > > The version of R I'm currently using is 3.3.3 (2017-03-06) from Debian > stable, which might explain the differences in utils:::format.person. > > What should I do to avoid the NOTE? > ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
