[Rd] Authors at R: and Author field

[Uwe Ligges]

On 02.05.2014 19:07, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Knut Krueger <rh at knut-krueger.de> wrote:
>> Hi to all
>>
>>
>> Authors at R: c(person("fooa","foob", role = c("aut","cre"),
>>                        email = "fooa.foob at fooc.de"),
>>           person("foo1","foo2", role = c("ctb"),
>>                   email = "foo1.foo2 at foo3.de"))
>> Author: fooa foob, with contributions from foo1 foo2
>> using r CMD check --as-cran ..   (R 3.1 and Windows) I get an error
>>
>> Author field differs from that derived from Authors at R
>>     Author:    'fooa foob, with contributions from foo1 foo2
>>     Authors at R: 'fooa foob [aut, cre], foo1 foo2 [ctb]'
>>
>> as I can see it is the same as in
>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#The-DESCRIPTION-file
>>
>> and additionally
>>   > Both 'Author' and 'Maintainer' fields can be omitted if a suitable
>> 'Authors at R' field is given.
>
> Yes, that passage in WRE is confusing/misleading, because it will give
> a NOTE with 'R CMD check --as-cran'
> [https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15470].   In
> order not to get that NOTE, you need to use:
>
> Authors at R: c(person("fooa","foob", role = c("aut","cre"), email =
> "fooa.foob at fooc.de"),
>                       person("foo1","foo2", role = c("ctb"), email =
> "foo1.foo2 at foo3.de"))
> Author: fooa foob [aut, cre], foo1 foo2 [ctb]
>
> The 'Author' field *must be the same* as the string generated by R
> from 'Authors at R'.
>
>>
>> is not working if the Author field is empty  or missing it will give an
>> error
>
> Actually, you can drop the 'Author' field

.. which is generated from Authors at R by R CMD build automatically ...

Best,
Uwe Ligges


  unless you need build your
> package on legacy versions of R.  I think in R (>= 2.14.0), you can
> use the 'Authors at R' field by itself.  Many package do that.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Henrik
>
>>
>> Kind regards Knut
>>
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