PS. This was for R 3.4.4: maybe that's relevant? (OTOH the CRAN oldrel checks aren't triggering this NOTE, and I can't find anything at all recent in R's NEWS file ...
I may invoke Clarke's third law ("any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws>) and take my chances with submitting to CRAN ... cheers Ben Bolker On 2019-03-05 2:46 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote: > > > I'm getting this NOTE on r-hub's linux-x86_64-ubuntu-gcc platform. It > seems weird because the Author field was automatically derived from > Authors@R (there is no Author: field in the DESCRIPTION file ...) > > I think I'm going to write this off as a glitch (I haven't seen it on > my own Linux or MacOS systems, or travis, or win-builder ...), but has > anyone seen it before? Am I doing something silly? > > ==== > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE > > 3815#> Author field differs from that derived from Authors@R > > 3816#> Author: ‘Douglas Bates [aut] (), Martin Maechler [aut] (), Ben > Bolker [aut, cre] (), Steven Walker [aut] (), Rune Haubo Bojesen > Christensen [ctb] (), Henrik Singmann [ctb] (), Bin Dai [ctb], Fabian > Scheipl [ctb] (), Gabor Grothendieck [ctb], Peter Green [ctb] (), John > Fox [ctb]’ > > 3817#> Authors@R: ‘Douglas Bates [aut] (0000-0001-8316-9503), Martin > Maechler [aut] (0000-0002-8685-9910), Ben Bolker [aut, cre] > (0000-0002-2127-0443), Steven Walker [aut] (0000-0002-4394-9078), Rune > Haubo Bojesen Christensen [ctb] (0000-0002-4494-3399), Henrik Singmann > [ctb] (0000-0002-4842-3657), Bin Dai [ctb], Fabian Scheipl [ctb] > (0000-0001-8172-3603), Gabor Grothendieck [ctb], Peter Green [ctb] > (0000-0002-0238-9852), John Fox [ctb]’ > > The original field in the DESCRIPTION file is: > > Authors@R: c( > person("Douglas","Bates", role="aut", > comment=c(ORCID="0000-0001-8316-9503")), > person("Martin","Maechler", role="aut", > comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-8685-9910")), > person("Ben","Bolker",email="bbolker+l...@gmail.com", > role=c("aut","cre"), > comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-2127-0443")), > person("Steven","Walker",role="aut", > comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-4394-9078")), > person("Rune Haubo Bojesen","Christensen", role="ctb", > comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-4494-3399")), > person("Henrik","Singmann", role="ctb", > comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-4842-3657")), > person("Bin", "Dai", role="ctb"), > person("Fabian", "Scheipl", role="ctb", > comment=c(ORCID="0000-0001-8172-3603")), > person("Gabor", "Grothendieck", role="ctb"), > person("Peter", "Green", role="ctb", > comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-0238-9852")), > person("John", "Fox", role="ctb") > ) > ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel