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Please fix minor bug in file DESCRIPTION (will take you max 10 min!) #25

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@aghr

Dear team,
When trying to install xtail v1.2.0 (and @Head as of today) via devtools or R CMD INSTALL I get the error below. The reason is that there is no maintainer entry in the file DESCRIPTION but this field is mandatory by R. I checked the version 1.15.0 and there the file DESCRIPTION has the maintainer filed. Have you deleted it by mistake?

To fix this bug, all you have to do is to add anew a field maintainer to the DESCRIPTION file, as shown in the example below. This is an effort of max 10 min. Many thanks.
Ciao, Andre

P.s.: Offering this package in a Docker container is nice, but it also has to be installable into a R installation without involving Docker for the sake of good usability.

====Error:
checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
Malformed maintainer field.

See section 'The DESCRIPTION file' in the 'Writing R Extensions'
manual.

=====Example DESCRIPTION file:
Package: pkgname
Version: 0.5-1
Date: 2015-01-01
Title: My First Collection of Functions
Authors@R: c(person("Joe", "Developer", role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "Joe.Developer@some.domain.net",
comment = c(ORCID = "nnnn-nnnn-nnnn-nnnn")),
person("Pat", "Developer", role = "aut"),
person("A.", "User", role = "ctb",
email = "A.User@whereever.net"))
Author: Joe Developer [aut, cre],
Pat Developer [aut],
A. User [ctb]
Maintainer: Joe Developer Joe.Developer@some.domain.net
Depends: R (>= 3.1.0), nlme
Suggests: MASS
Description: A (one paragraph) description of what
the package does and why it may be useful.
License: GPL (>= 2)
URL: https://www.r-project.org, http://www.another.url
BugReports: https://pkgname.bugtracker.url

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