DESCRIPTION file from create() shouldn't have Maintainer field

[wch]

When submitting a package to CRAN, the Authors@R field shouldn't contain a Maintainer field, if the Authors@R has [aut, cre].

If both are present, R CMD check --as-cran, gives this NOTE:

* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
Maintainer field differs from that derived from Authors@R
  Maintainer: 'First Last <[email protected]>'
  Authors@R:  '"First Last <[email protected]>'

The note doesn't come up when using check(), but it does come up when you use with_envvar(c("_R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_"=TRUE), check()).

[hadley]

Right, if you're using Authors@R, you shouldn't use maintainer or author.

[wch]

Oh, I think made a mistake - I thought that create() was adding both the Authors@R and the Maintainer fields, but I must have added in the Maintainer myself in a package I was working on.