This has been asked soooo many times that I think it may be a good idea for R CMD check to just stop when the user passes a directory instead of a tar ball to it, or automatically run R CMD build before moving on. In my opinion, sometimes an FAQ and a bug are not entirely different.
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Sanford Weisberg <sa...@umn.edu> wrote: > Using SUSE Linux, Windows 32 bit and Windows 64 bit R 3.0.2 , I am unable > to use R CMD check successfully. Here is the Windows 64 bit report: > > > Z:\R\source\effects>R CMD check pkg > * using log directory 'Z:/R/source/effects/pkg.Rcheck' > * using R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) > * using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit) > * using session charset: ISO8859-1 > * checking for file 'pkg/DESCRIPTION' ... ERROR > Required fields missing or empty: > 'Author' 'Maintainer' > > The file DESCRIPTION looks like this: > > Package: effects > Version: 2.3-0 > Date: 2013/10/22 > Title: Effect Displays for Linear, Generalized Linear, Multinomial-Logit, > Proportional-Odds Logit Models and Mixed-Effects Models > Authors@R: c(person("John", "Fox", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = " > j...@mcmaster.ca"), > person("Sanford", "Weisberg", role = "aut", email = "sa...@umn.edu"), > person("Michael", "Friendly", role = "aut", email = "frien...@yorku.ca > "), > person("Jangman", "Hong", role = "aut"), > person("Robert", "Andersen", role = "ctb"), > person("David", "Firth", role = "ctb"), > person("Steve", "Taylor", role = "ctb")) > Depends: lattice, grid, colorspace > Suggests: nlme, lme4, MASS, nnet, poLCA, heplots > LazyLoad: yes > LazyData: yes > Description: > Graphical and tabular effect displays, e.g., of interactions, for linear > generalized linear, multinomial-logit, proportional-odds logit models, > mixed-effect models, polytomous latent-class models and multivariate > linear models. > License: GPL (>= 2) > URL: http://www.r-project.org, http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ > > The 'Author' and 'Maintainer' fields should be automatically generated. > With version 3.0.1, I had no such problem, and my coauthors who use Eciplse > and R-studio have no problems with R 3.0.2. John Fox suggested the > following: > > When R CMD build creates a package tarball it writes the information from > Authors@R into the > Author and Maintainer fields. I think that Sandy's > problem is produced by checking the package source directory rather than a > package source tarball. I use RStudio to check packages, and it > automatically builds the tarball first, which is the recommended procedure. > R-Forge does that too. Michael uses Eclipse, and if I remember right, it too > creates a tarball (but I haven't used it in quite some time). > > Is this a bug in R CMD check? > > > -- > Sanford Weisberg, sa...@umn.edu > <sa...@umn.edu> > For undergraduate matters: underg...@stat.umn.edu > University of Minnesota, School of Statistics > 312 Ford Hall, 224 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 > 612-625-8355, FAX 612-624-8868 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
