Hi Duncan,
Thanks for the fast check and reply.
Indeed, the documentation is correct. I just think it can be interpreted as
saying Date is required to submit to CRAN.
Some package maintainers have been using the Date field, probably
interpreting this section this way because if you read the main
On 2025-04-06 10:55 a.m., Lluís Revilla wrote:
Hi,
On Writing R Extensions there is a footnote [6] about the "Date" field on
the DESCRIPTION file being required by CRAN:
"required by CRAN, so checked by R CMD check --as-cran"
I think this is no longer up to date, as I've seen packages publishe
Hi,
On Writing R Extensions there is a footnote [6] about the "Date" field on
the DESCRIPTION file being required by CRAN:
"required by CRAN, so checked by R CMD check --as-cran"
I think this is no longer up to date, as I've seen packages published on
CRAN without it.
This might be because now t
