[R-pkg-devel] Fwd: Authors maybe from R: R CMD check . fail

[Julian Grimm]

Hello together,

I have a question regarding the Authors using R field.
When I run R CMD check . in a package either created by myself with
pkgKitten::kitten, usethis::create_package or even on existing packages on
Cran (e.g. the validate package),
I get the following error:

* checking for file ‘./DESCRIPTION’ ... ERROR
Required fields missing or empty:
  ‘Author’ ‘Maintainer’
* DONE

The corresponding line in the DESCRIPTION file is:

Authors using R: person("Your", "Name", role = c("aut", "cre"),
       email = "your using email.com")

and Authors using R:
    person("First", "Last", , "first.last using example.com", role = c("aut",
"cre"))

for pkgKitten and usethis respectively.

Why does this error occur?

With best wishes
Julian

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