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remove useless DESCRIPTION field #50

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@maelle maelle commented Jul 19, 2024

just a suggestion (I was looking at DESCRIPTION because of a registry building failure)

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From https://r-pkgs.org/description.html

An older, still valid approach is to have separate Maintainer and Author fields in DESCRIPTION. However, we strongly recommend the more modern approach of Authors@R and the person() function, because it offers richer metadata for various downstream uses.

So yes, seems unnecessary. Thanks!

@jmaspons jmaspons merged commit b8b4093 into main Jul 19, 2024
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@jmaspons jmaspons deleted the meta branch July 19, 2024 11:25
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