[R-pkg-devel] Resolving author field note

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

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 using R
|   Author:    'Hannah Owens [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0071-1745>), Vijay Barve [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567>), Scott Chamberlain [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9135>), Karthik Ram [ctb], Ted Hart [ctb], rOpenSci [fnd] (https://ror.org/019jywm96)'
|   Authors using R: 'Hannah Owens [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0071-1745>), Vijay Barve [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567>), Scott Chamberlain [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9135>), Karthik Ram [ctb], Ted Hart [ctb], rOpenSci [fnd] (ROR: <https://ror.org/019jywm96>)
| I do not have an “Author” field in the Description file, only the “Authors using 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://orcid.org/0000-0003-0071-1745>)

and 

   (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0071-1745>)

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

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