You need to run "R CMD build" on your package, then run "R CMD check" on
the resulting tarball, as recommended in section 1.3.1 of the "Writing R
Extensions" manual.
The tarball will contain a version of the DESCRIPTION file with Author
and Maintainer fields built from the Authors@R field.
Martyn
Section 1.1 of R-exts mentions that the Maintainer and Author fields can be
omitted from the DESCRIPTION file if Authors@R is supplied. However, R CMD
check does not seem to like this.
package.skeleton("foo")
desc <- readLines("foo/DESCRIPTION")
desc[6] <- "Authors@R: person('Mathew', 'McLean', e
