[R-pkg-devel] Resolving author field note

[Georgi Boshnakov]

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 using R field so smartly. If that is the case, it is ok.

Georgi

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From: R-package-devel <r-package-devel-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org>
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To: Hannah Owens <hannah.owens using gmail.com>
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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 using 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 using 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 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://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

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