On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com > wrote:
> Another example: The "Author" of the Ecdat package is Yves Croissant < > yves.croiss...@let.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr>. I'm the Maintainer. At some > point, I may add my name to the list of Authors but I certainly would never > remove Yves' name. That package is, I think, exclusively data sets. I > added functions, which I later spun off into a separate Edfun package; I'm > listed as the Author and Maintainer of that. > This reminded me of something I have always found curious about roles listed in the DESCRIPTION file. Since there is no "maintainer" role in this list: http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaterm.html, which was used to get the role names, you will be listed as the "creator" of the package when you list yourself as maintainer even if you did not initiate the package or even contribute code. THK http://www.keittlab.org/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
