You probably get this message with a package built with a current version of R but checked against an older version of R which doesn't process the author@R field so smartly. If that is the case, it is ok.
Georgi Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: R-package-devel <[email protected]> on behalf of Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 6, 2025 1:58:01 PM To: Hannah Owens <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Resolving author field note Hi Hannah, On 6 December 2025 at 13:42, Hannah Owens wrote: | I�m getting a curious note from CRAN�s submission check I�m not sure how to resolve for the voluModel package: | * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE | Author field differs from that derived from Authors@R | Author: 'Hannah Owens [aut, cre] (<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0071-1745__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!EKV33MV5OyGXwLgFFyy7S02IxiH0bYZ_3UYarHYrQBVfmhYkTnCKecjTtHmx8578yNVIlr3inlEbB72NlTDHKv7c$ [orcid[.]org]>), Vijay Barve [aut] (<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!EKV33MV5OyGXwLgFFyy7S02IxiH0bYZ_3UYarHYrQBVfmhYkTnCKecjTtHmx8578yNVIlr3inlEbB72NlVa4btTx$ [orcid[.]org]>), Scott Chamberlain [aut] (<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9135__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!EKV33MV5OyGXwLgFFyy7S02IxiH0bYZ_3UYarHYrQBVfmhYkTnCKecjTtHmx8578yNVIlr3inlEbB72NlSAjsfEB$ [orcid[.]org]>), Karthik Ram [ctb], Ted Hart [ctb], rOpenSci [fnd] (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ror.org/019jywm96__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!EKV33MV5OyGXwLgFFyy7S02IxiH0bYZ_3UYarHYrQBVfmhYkTnCKecjTtHmx8578yNVIlr3inlEbB72NlXWRUCIF$ [ror[.]org])' | Authors@R: 'Hannah Owens [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0071-1745__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!EKV33MV5OyGXwLgFFyy7S02IxiH0bYZ_3UYarHYrQBVfmhYkTnCKecjTtHmx8578yNVIlr3inlEbB72NlTDHKv7c$ [orcid[.]org]>), Vijay Barve [aut] (ORCID: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!EKV33MV5OyGXwLgFFyy7S02IxiH0bYZ_3UYarHYrQBVfmhYkTnCKecjTtHmx8578yNVIlr3inlEbB72NlVa4btTx$ [orcid[.]org]>), Scott Chamberlain [aut] (ORCID: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9135__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!EKV33MV5OyGXwLgFFyy7S02IxiH0bYZ_3UYarHYrQBVfmhYkTnCKecjTtHmx8578yNVIlr3inlEbB72NlSAjsfEB$ [orcid[.]org]>), Karthik Ram [ctb], Ted Hart [ctb], rOpenSci [fnd] (ROR: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ror.org/019jywm96__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!EKV33MV5OyGXwLgFFyy7S02IxiH0bYZ_3UYarHYrQBVfmhYkTnCKecjTtHmx8578yNVIlr3inlEbB72NlXWRUCIF$ [ror[.]org]>) | I do not have an �Author� field in the Description file, only the �Authors@R� field. This is not an error I get from any of my pre-release checks. | Does anyone have a suggestion regarding where this phantom �Author� field is hiding? With enough squinting we notice that the difference is (for all ORCID fieldsm only one shown) between (<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0071-1745__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!EKV33MV5OyGXwLgFFyy7S02IxiH0bYZ_3UYarHYrQBVfmhYkTnCKecjTtHmx8578yNVIlr3inlEbB72NlTDHKv7c$ [orcid[.]org]>) and (ORCID: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0071-1745__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!EKV33MV5OyGXwLgFFyy7S02IxiH0bYZ_3UYarHYrQBVfmhYkTnCKecjTtHmx8578yNVIlr3inlEbB72NlTDHKv7c$ [orcid[.]org]>) which leads to _suspect_ that the processing code is now ahead is makeing the ORCID identificier more of a proper field (there have been previous changes to that effect) and the checking code may not have caught up, but likely will soon. You could ask CRAN, or wait a day or two and see if it changes, and/or try with a slightly older R-devel build. My containers rocker/r-devel and rocker/drd (which is slighly smaller) update weekly early in the week so you could try that. Cheers, Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!EKV33MV5OyGXwLgFFyy7S02IxiH0bYZ_3UYarHYrQBVfmhYkTnCKecjTtHmx8578yNVIlr3inlEbB72NlVF7xxEF$ [stat[.]ethz[.]ch] [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
