>From CRAN policy (which you agreed to when you submitted your package) - note >in particular the "nor anywhere else on the file system" part and also note >that it tells you what to do in your case:
Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the location pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned up). Installing into the system’s R installation (e.g., scripts to its bin directory) is not allowed. Limited exceptions may be allowed in interactive sessions if the package obtains confirmation from the user. For R version 4.0 or later (hence a version dependency is required or only conditional use is possible), packages may store user-specific data, configuration and cache files in their respective user directories obtained from tools::R_user_dir(), provided that by default sizes are kept as small as possible and the contents are actively managed (including removing outdated material). > On Oct 23, 2023, at 5:52 AM, Keshav, Krishna <kkes...@ufl.edu> wrote: > > Hi, > > My package is failing on linux based systems because of an attempt to write > in a location of package. One of the core features that we would like user to > have is to modify the values in the config file, for which package has a > function for user to provide modified config. In future, they should be able > to provide individual parameters for the config for which also we will be > writing to config in package directory /inst/ so that it can later be > fetched. I understand that policy doesn’t allow writing to home directory. Is > there a workaround for this? Or what could be other potential solutions to > explore. > > Snippet – > https://github.com/GarrettLab/CroplandConnectivity/blob/923a4a0ca4a0ce8376068ee80986df228ea21d80/geohabnet/R/params.R#L57 > > Error – > ── Failure ('test-parameters.R:38:3'): Test 6: Test to set new > parameters.yaml ── > Expected `set_parameters(new_param_file)` to run without any conditions. > ℹ Actually got a <simpleWarning> with text: > cannot create file > '/home/hornik/tmp/R.check/r-release-gcc/Work/build/Packages/geohabnet/parameters.yaml', > reason 'Read-only file system' > > > Best Regards, > Krishna Keshav > > > [[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
