Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-25 Thread Eggleston, Barry
This is great news Roman. The "rth" role stands for "Research team head", and I got it from the http://www.loc.gov/marc//relators/relaterm.html website. This issue here is Diane Catellier provided the funds and management for us to develop this package. I did not know about the person() functi

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-25 Thread Roman Flury
Barry, sorry did not anticipate the behaving of the emailer. I could reproduce your error with the DESCRIPTION file below with a helloworld pkg Package: test Type: Package Title: What the Package Does (Title Case) Version: 0.1.0 Authors@R: c(person("Roman", "Flury", email = "roman.fl...@math.u

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-25 Thread Eggleston, Barry
Roman, Not sure why my emailer added all those items, but none of them are in my original DESCRIPTION file. So my Maintainer line, for example, simply reads Barry Eggleston , where email address is simply beggles...@rti.org. Thanks for the observation, Barry -Origi

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-25 Thread Roman Flury
Hello, after https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html the ‘Maintainer’ field should give a single name followed by a valid (RFC 2822) email address in angle brackets. but beggles...@rti.org is not a valid RFC 2822 email address, you could check thi

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-25 Thread Eggleston, Barry
Below is a copy of my DESCRIPTION file: Package: BayesCTDesign Type: Package Title: Two Arm Bayesian Clinical Trial Design with and Without Historical Control Data Version: 1.0.0 Authors@R: c( person("Barry", "Eggleston", email = "beggles...@rti.org", role = c("cre