Check DESCRIPTION's Authors@R usage — cl_check_authors

Flags a missing Authors@R field, and flags manually-specified Author/Maintainer fields that disagree with what R would generate from Authors@R – per the CRAN Cookbook, that disagreement results in automatic rejection.

Usage

cl_check_authors_r(path = ".")

Arguments

path: Path to the package root. Defaults to the current directory.

Value

A tibble following the cranlint check-result contract; see AGENTS.md.

Details

The generated-value comparison reconstructs what R CMD build would generate using only the exported format() generic for person objects (see .cl_expected_author()/.cl_expected_maintainer() in R/utils-desc.R), rather than calling the unexported base R helpers that perform the equivalent comparison during R CMD check – doing so via ::: produced a dependency NOTE on every check, including in CI, even though cranlint isn't meant for CRAN submission itself.