It is A Good Thing to regularize Authors and Maintainers of packages,
particularly for citation()
and toBibTex().
Could I add a suggested TODO item for the maintainer of package.skeleton
and friends to
help reinforce this for new packages:
- Please add appropriate templates for Author@R in the skeleton
DESCRIPTION file generated,
indicating the proper format as well as the use of role= to signal the
creator and
maintainer.
- a comment to see ?person for descriptions of fields wouldn't hurt either
best,
-Michael
On 8/8/2011 9:46 AM, Kurt Hornik wrote:
Dear maintainers,
This concerns the packages
CITAN ENmisc Formula MSBVAR RExcelInstaller RcmdrPlugin.mosaic
Rd2roxygen Rz SGP betareg expectreg fastcluster glmc gptk heplots pxR
sideChannelAttack sp spacetime trapezoid vcd
maintained by one of you.
I see that you have added Author@R fields providing enhanced information
on package authors to your DESCRIPTION files, which since R 2.12.0 is
used for auto-generating citations.
In current r-devel, we have finally added functionality for also
auto-generating package DESCRIPTION Author and Maintainer fields from
the enhanced information "if needed" [i.e., existing fields will not be
overwritten].
However, in the process of this the field was renamed to 'Authors@R', so
please change your DESCRIPTION files accordingly.
In doing so, pls note that to auto-generate Maintainer fields the
Authors@R fields need to provide authors with a maintainer (cre) role
and an email address. Currently, packages
CITAN MSBVAR SGP fastcluster glmc gptk heplots sideChannelAttack sp
spacetime trapezoid
do not specify the package maintainer in their Authors@R field.
(Note that to take advantage of the new auto-generation functionality,
you need to rename to Authors@R, remove the DESCRIPTION Author and
Maintainer fields in the package sources, and then run R CMD build from
a current version of r-devel.)
Best
-k
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