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-- Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 3:06 PM Sam Albers <tonightstheni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am experience some issues with building a package that we are > hosting on GitHub. The package itself is quite large. It is a data > package with a bunch of spatial files stored as .rds files. > > The repo is located here: https://github.com/bcgov/bcmaps.rdata > > If we clone that package to local machine via: > git clone https://github.com/bcgov/bcmaps.rdata > > The first oddity is that the package installs successfully using this: > > $ R CMD INSTALL "./bcmaps.rdata" > > But fails when I try to build the package: > > $ R CMD build "./bcmaps.rdata" > * checking for file './bcmaps.rdata/DESCRIPTION' ... OK > * preparing 'bcmaps.rdata': > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK > * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts > * checking for empty or unneeded directories > * looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added > Warning in gzfile(file, "rb") : > cannot open compressed file 'bcmaps.rdata', probable reason > 'Permission denied' > Error in gzfile(file, "rb") : cannot open the connection > Execution halted > > > The second oddity is that if I remove the . from the Package name in > the DESCRIPTION file, the build proceeds smoothly: > > $ R CMD build "./bcmaps.rdata" > * checking for file './bcmaps.rdata/DESCRIPTION' ... OK > * preparing 'bcmapsrdata': > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK > * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts > * checking for empty or unneeded directories > * looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added > * building 'bcmapsrdata_0.2.0.tar.gz' > > I am assuming that R CMD install builds the package internally so I > find it confusing that I am not able to build it myself. Similarly > confusing is the lack of a . in the package name indicative of > anything? > > Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Am I missing something > obvious? > > Thanks in advance, > > Sam > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
