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title: "Welcome!"
subtitle: "The CRAN Cookbook is a complementary self-service guide to discover solutions to common CRAN submission issues."
author: "Jasmine Daly and Beni Altmann"
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Welcome to the **CRAN Cookbook**, your go-to guide for solving common (and often recurring) issues spotted by CRAN volunteers during package submissions and re-submissions. Here, you’ll find practical "recipes" organized by different parts of the package structure (e.g., issues with the DESCRIPTION file can be found in the [Description chapter](https://contributor.r-project.org/cran-cookbook/description_issues.html)). The CRAN Cookbook is curated by Jasmine Daly and Beni Altmann, with guidance from a steering committee of experts: Heather Turner, Bettina Grün, and Gwynn Gebeyehu. We encourage [contributions](https://github.com/r-devel/cran-cookbook/discussions/categories/community-contributions) from the community!


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## Expand To Learn More About the Writers & Steering Committee 

### Writers

- [Jasmine Daly (@jasdumas)](https://github.com/jasdumas): Principal Consultant & Founder of [Daly Analytics](https://dalyanalytics.com/), maintainer of 2 CRAN packages.

- [Beni Altmann (@Baltmann01)](https://github.com/Baltmann01): Student, assistant member of the CRAN Team working on CRAN submissions. 

### Steering Committee 

- [Heather Turner (@hturner)](https://github.com/hturner): member of the R Foundation, former R Journal Editor, maintainer of 4 CRAN packages, has run several workshops on R package development.
 - [Bettina Grün (@bettinagruen)](https://github.com/bettinagruen): member of the R Foundation, Journal of Statistical Software Editor-in-Chief, former R Journal Editor, maintainer of 5 CRAN packages, manager of the two assistants on the CRAN Team working on CRAN submissions.
 - [Gwynn Gebeyehu (@nzgwynn)](https://github.com/nzgwynn) data scientist, former lecturer and academic researcher, has experience of technical writing for range of audiences. R user since 2002 with package development experience.
 
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