On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 11:41 AM Vincent Goulet <vincent.gou...@me.com> wrote: > > Although late to the party, I thought I might chime in with a different take > on the question. > > Most answers seem to pertain to the actual license used for the package. For > my part, I read the question as: "GitHub wants me to have a LICENSE file at > the root of the repository, but R CMD check complains about it. What should I > do?" > > If you need to use the LICENSE file in your package, Ben Bolker already > pointed you at the correct way to do it. > > If the file is just there to please GitHub (and in any case), here's what I > tend to do: put the source code of your package in a subdirectory (say 'src') > of the repository. You may then put the GitHub files (README.md, LICENSE, > whatever else) at the top level without interfering with R CMD build/check. > The added benefit is that you will then build the package in the directory of > the project (say 'mypkg') with 'R CMD build src' and end up with a file > .../mypkg/mypkg_x.y-z.tar.gz, rather than in the parent directory of 'mypkg'. > Another alternative is put everything you don't want to be included in your package in the .Rbuildignore file. For example: https://github.com/joshuaulrich/xts/blob/main/.Rbuildignore
> (Mind you, I build my packages manually. The tidyverse tools may very well > take care of this sort of things automatically and I wouldn't know.) > I also build my packages manually (with a makefile) and have my own personal preferences, so the patterns in my file may need to be changed for others' packages. > Hope this helps, > > v. > > Vincent Goulet > Professeur titulaire > École d'actuariat, Université Laval > > > Le 9 août 2023 à 11:06, Emanuele Cordano <emanuele.cord...@gmail.com> a > > écrit : > > > > Dear list, > > > > is there a way to put the LICENSE file within an R package like in Github, > > I have an R package on Github with a a LICENSE file compliant to Github and > > containing the text of the licence citing in the DESCRIPION file. But when > > I check the package , I obatained the following output: > > > > * checking top-level files ... NOTE > > File > > LICENSE > > > > is not mentioned in the DESCRIPTION file. > > > > How can I solve this? > > Thank you > > best > > Emanuele Cordano > > -- > > Emanuele Cordano, PhD > > Environmental Engineer / Ingegnere per l' Ambiente e il territorio nr. > > 3587 (Albo A - Provincia di Trento) > > cell: +39 3282818564 > > email: emanuele.cord...@gmail.com,emanuele.cord...@rendena100.eu, > > emanuele.cord...@eurac.edu > > PEC: emanuele.cord...@ingpec.eu > > URL: www.rendena100.eu > > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuele-cordano-31995333 > > GitHub: https://github.com/ecor > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
