Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check NOTE - Long paths in package

2015-10-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 13 October 2015 at 15:04, Charles Determan wrote: | I'm glad to see this discussion. Unfortunately in the short term I cannot | remove the nested files (as Dirk implies with the BH package) as it would Rename, not remove. Of course I didn't remove a file. I changed a filename, and the includ

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Format/parser for NEWS (not NEWS.Rd)?

2015-10-13 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:40 PM, boB Rudis wrote: > Try looking at the source for tools:::.news_reader_default and then > tools::toRd Thank you for this. That works - for example > news <- tools:::.news_reader_default("NEWS") > str(news) Classes 'news_db' and 'data.frame': 21 obs. of 4 var

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check NOTE - Long paths in package

2015-10-13 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Regardless of tar or not, note that there are other limits in R on how long *file* names can be, e.g. > pathname <- paste(rep("a", times=255), collapse="") > nchar(pathname) [1] 255 > cat("hello", file=pathname) > pathname <- paste(rep("a", times=256), collapse="") > nchar(pathname) [1] 256 > cat

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check NOTE - Long paths in package

2015-10-13 Thread Charles Determan
I'm glad to see this discussion. Unfortunately in the short term I cannot remove the nested files (as Dirk implies with the BH package) as it would require restructuring the c++ library and make it far more difficult to maintain. Unless there are other suggestions I will need to hold off on submi

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check NOTE - Long paths in package

2015-10-13 Thread peter dalgaard
On 13 Oct 2015, at 09:42 , Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > On 13.10.2015 09:01, Barry Rowlingson wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >>> >>> On 12 October 2015 at 13:13, Charles Determan wrote: >>> | Greetings, >>> | >>> | I have a package which provides headers for a

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check NOTE - Long paths in package

2015-10-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 13.10.2015 09:01, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 12 October 2015 at 13:13, Charles Determan wrote: | Greetings, | | I have a package which provides headers for a C++ library (similar to the | BH package). However, the C++ library has

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check NOTE - Long paths in package

2015-10-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 12 October 2015 at 13:13, Charles Determan wrote: > | Greetings, > | > | I have a package which provides headers for a C++ library (similar to the > | BH package). However, the C++ library has some heavily nested components > | with