Thank you Gábor! That was the problem, and I learned from it.
On 10/1/19 9:36 AM, Gábor Csárdi wrote: > Your ignore file changes make R (and roxygen) ignore all source files: > https://github.com/sgutreuter/screenr/commit/3eaa9280221aa9885b6c35a758a46fbb2fdb1e46#diff-bc92b187c74649b3e0a039784ff93b39 > > Undo the `#*` line. > > Gabor > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 2:26 PM Steve Gutreuter <sgutreu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> First, thank you Bill Dunlap, Peter Dalgaard and Max Turgeon, >> >> I edited (incompletely) the initial posting and failed to change screenr >> to mypackage. However that was not the source of the problem. >> Windows sysadmins cannot be convinced that paths containing white space >> are pure evil, but that is also not the problem because building also >> fails on a Linux Mint box that uses only sane file/directory names. >> Default installation from GitHub (sgutreuter/screenr) succeeds because >> the version in Master is OK. The version in branch fixROC fails. >> >> I think that the root of the problem is that the Rd files are not being >> created in /man. Roxygen2::roxygenize() is failing *silently* (another >> source of frustration). So I suspect the problem lies somewhere in the >> comments for one or more of the functions. I am trying to identify >> where from a diff, as Bill suggested. >> >> Best regards, >> Steve >> >> >> On 9/30/19 5:30 PM, William Dunlap wrote: >>> Will the package build if you back out the "minor changes"? If so, >>> what were the minor changes (show diff output)? >>> >>> Bill Dunlap >>> TIBCO Software >>> wdunlap tibco.com <http://tibco.com> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:24 PM Steve Gutreuter <sgutreu...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:sgutreu...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> I have a package which will no longer build after minor changes. The >>> problem occurs under both Windows 10 and Linux Mint. For example, >>> from a >>> Windows terminal I do: >>> >>> C:\Users\xyz\OneDrive - ORG\Computing\Devel> R CMD build screenr >>> >>> and I get: >>> >>> * checking for file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' ... OK >>> * preparing 'mypackage': >>> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK >>> * installing the package to process help pages >>> * saving partial Rd database >>> Error in .read_description(ldpath) : >>> file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' does not exist >>> Execution halted >>> >>> So the first and third lines of output contradict the error >>> message, and of >>> course mypackage/DESCRIPTION does exist. I suspect the problem >>> has nothing >>> to do with the DESCRIPTION file, but have not found way to >>> identify the >>> actual problem in searches on StackOverflow and elsewhere. My .R >>> files in >>> mypackage/R contain Roxygen comments, and curiously >>> devtools::document() >>> adds nothing to mypackage/man. >>> >>> Any suggestions about how to debug or solve this problem? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Steve >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-package-devel@r-project.org >>> <mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org> mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >>> >> -- >> Steve Gutreuter >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- Steve Gutreuter [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
