Thank you Ahmadou, Robert and Gábor, In package 'presser' Gábor used no dedicated AUTHORS file but use 'comment' and 'role' tag of Authors@R to mention their contribution and refer to further comments in file (e.g. inst/credits/redoc.md, src/md5.h)
Robert, also described a strategy using Authors@R Ahmadou, used something similar to what I have done in the 'IFC' package I want to submit on CRAN, with extra AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS files found in inst/ directory of its 'cgal4h' package. Then, he used "Author: file inst/AUTHORS" and "Copyright: file inst/COPYRIGHTS" in DESCRIPTION file to refer to these files. In 'RcppMsgPack' package, I was using as an example in my 1st message, extra AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS files found in 'inst/' directory were also used. DESCRIPTION file contains: - Author: Travers Ching and Dirk Eddelbuettel; the authors and contributors of MsgPack - Copyright: file inst/COPYRIGHTS So, as far as I understand from your replies, there seems to be no general rule on how to do it. But it seems that when Author: or Copyright: is used in DESCRIPTION and refer to a file then 'inst/' directory should be prepend to the file name (e.g. Copyright: file inst/COPYRIGHTS) In next submission I will use in DESCRIPTION: Authors@R and have a 'inst/AUTHORS' file Copyright: file inst/COPYRIGHTS and have a 'inst/COPYRIGHTS' file Description: <the description of my 'IFC' package> + See file 'COPYRIGHTS' and file 'AUTHORS' for a list of copyright holders and authors Thanks a lot for your help, Yohann On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 7:56 PM Ahmadou Dicko <dicko.ahma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Yohann, > > I had a similar situation with my first package. > I used Author + Maintainer field instead Authors@R and I added the > inst/AUTHORS to Author and my email to the Maintainer field. > In the list of author names (and I have a lot of them in cgal4h), make > sure that you also define the different roles (i.e ctb, cph, etc). > You can access the metadata here and the Gitlab repository there > > https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cgal4h > > Hope it helps. > > Ahmadou > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:30 PM git demont <git.dem...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Sorry for asking again, but I got absolutely no advice on how to >> correctly refer to extra copyrights and authors files in package >> DESCRIPTION. >> I know this can be considered as impolite and I don't want to do so. >> So, I waited one week until sending the present message and I promise I >> will not send another to ask for the same thing after this one. >> >> Best, >> Yohann >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 4:04 PM git demont <git.dem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I am developing a package called 'IFC'. >> > https://github.com/gitdemont/IFC/ >> > <https://github.com/gitdemont/IFC/tree/v0.0.7> >> > >> > Last submission (v0.0.7) was almost the final one to get it CRAN >> > https://github.com/gitdemont/IFC/tree/v0.0.7 >> > It was manually checked and it should be accepted if I removed a dontrun >> > (that I unfortunately forgot). >> > >> > For the next submission ( I hope it will be the good one ), in addition >> to >> > fixing the dontrun, I would like to include a small modification that >> was >> > not asked. I would like to avoid another round of submission/review by >> > introducing an issue that was not here. In DESCRIPTION of 'IFC', I am >> > inviting users to refer to files for copyrights and authorship. "See >> file >> > inst/COPYRIGHTS and file inst/AUTHORS for a list of copyright holders >> and >> > authors" >> > >> > However, I am not sure whether I should say 'inst/COPYRIGHTS' and >> > 'inst/AUTHORS' because these files are in the 'inst/' directory of the >> > built tar.gz, or if I should only refer to 'COPYRIGHTS' and 'AUTHORS' >> > (without inst/) because once installed these files will be at the root >> of >> > IFC library directory. >> > The same question olds for "Copyright: file inst/COPYRIGHTS". >> > >> > In CRAN policies, one can read: >> > "Where copyrights are held by an entity other than the package authors, >> > this should preferably be indicated via ‘cph’ roles in the ‘Authors@R’ >> > field, or using a ‘Copyright’ field (if necessary referring to an >> > inst/COPYRIGHTS file)." >> > In 'RcppMsgPack' for instance we have: >> > - in the description: "See the files 'COPYRIGHTS' and 'AUTHORS' for a >> full >> > list of copyright holders and contributors to 'msgpack-c'." >> > - in the copyrights: "inst/COPYRIGHTS". >> > >> > Best, >> > Yohann >> > >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> > > > -- > Ahmadou H. DICKO, PhD > > Statistical consultant > Mobile: (+221) 77 123 81 69 > Skype: dicko.ahmadou.h > Twitter : @dickoah > Gitlab: gitlab/dickoa > Github: github/dickoa > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
