[R-pkg-devel] Trouble building vignettes with R-devel, can't replicate locally

2019-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Greetings I just tried to upload a new version of stationery, my collection of Sweave and markdown templates. CRAN fails to build vignettes, almost certainly a problem in Pandoc (what version is CRAN using?). My experience with markdown in general is that if you don't like the format they provide

[R-pkg-devel] fate of functions with periods in name

2018-09-12 Thread Paul Johnson
I have not introduced functions with periods in their name before, but recently I wanted to put a new version of "rbind.fill" in my package rockchalk. When I do the package check with R-3.5.1, I see a package build warning: Found the following apparent S3 methods exported but not registered: rb

Re: [R-pkg-devel] questions about \dontrun{} etc.

2018-09-10 Thread Paul Johnson
I think Ben has a good question and I have a related followup. On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 2:07 PM Ben Bolker wrote: > * My preference would be for using \dontrun{} universally (consistent, > readable, mostly avoids accidental runs), but this goes against > (informal?) CRAN policy > > * universal \d

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package vignette index

2018-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Can one of you confirm this answer: The --as-cran package checker is looking for "build/vignette.rds", not "vignettes/index.html" as I thought. Details below. On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Can you advise me about this warning in package c

[R-pkg-devel] Debian pandoc "\passthrough undefined" error and workaround

2018-08-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Today I saw an error from CRAN that I did not see in Win-builder or on my system with Ubuntu Linux. This is from the CRAN Debian test system: * checking for unstated dependencies in vignettes ... OK * checking package vignettes in ‘inst/doc’ ... OK * checking re-building of vignette outputs ... [6

[R-pkg-devel] Package vignette index

2018-08-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Can you advise me about this warning in package check: Package has a VignetteBuilder field but no prebuilt vignette index. In my vignette folder, I do have an "index.html" file, the index in the installed package is fine. But I still get this package build warning: I asked same question on stac