[R-pkg-devel] building binary gives error when trying to load

2016-11-01 Thread Rampal Etienne
Dear all, When I try to build a Windows binary in RStudio using R-devel, everything goes well until the packages is tested whether it can be loaded. I then get the error: ** testing if installed package can be loaded *** arch - i386 Error: '\U' used without hex digits in character string start

Re: [R-pkg-devel] building binary gives error when trying to load

2016-11-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
Use forward slashes in file specification such as c:/Users/rampa/ Best, Uwe Ligges On 01.11.2016 14:49, Rampal Etienne wrote: Dear all, When I try to build a Windows binary in RStudio using R-devel, everything goes well until the packages is tested whether it can be loaded. I then get th

Re: [R-pkg-devel] building binary gives error when trying to load

2016-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2016 9:49 AM, Rampal Etienne wrote: Dear all, When I try to build a Windows binary in RStudio using R-devel, everything goes well until the packages is tested whether it can be loaded. I then get the error: ** testing if installed package can be loaded *** arch - i386 Error: '\U' used

Re: [R-pkg-devel] building binary gives error when trying to load

2016-11-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 01.11.2016 15:56, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 01/11/2016 9:49 AM, Rampal Etienne wrote: Dear all, When I try to build a Windows binary in RStudio using R-devel, everything goes well until the packages is tested whether it can be loaded. I then get the error: ** testing if installed package c

Re: [R-pkg-devel] building binary gives error when trying to load

2016-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2016 1:10 PM, Henric Winell wrote: On 2016-11-01 17:01, Uwe Ligges wrote: > On 01.11.2016 15:56, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 01/11/2016 9:49 AM, Rampal Etienne wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> When I try to build a Windows binary in RStudio using R-devel, >>> everything goes well until the

Re: [R-pkg-devel] building binary gives error when trying to load

2016-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2016 9:49 AM, Rampal Etienne wrote: Dear all, When I try to build a Windows binary in RStudio using R-devel, everything goes well until the packages is tested whether it can be loaded. I then get the error: ** testing if installed package can be loaded *** arch - i386 Error: '\U' used

[R-pkg-devel] Package submissions via ftp will no longer be accepted by CRAN

2016-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
A notice to package developers: For a long time CRAN has encouraged package maintainers to submit packages via the web submission page linked from This makes handling submissions substantially easier for us, and we have decided that it

Re: [R-pkg-devel] building binary gives error when trying to load

2016-11-01 Thread Henric Winell
Den 2016-11-01 kl. 21:24, skrev Duncan Murdoch: On 01/11/2016 9:49 AM, Rampal Etienne wrote: Dear all, When I try to build a Windows binary in RStudio using R-devel, everything goes well until the packages is tested whether it can be loaded. I then get the error: ** testing if installed packag

[R-pkg-devel] NEWS.Rd and NEWS.md

2016-11-01 Thread Johannes Ranke
Dear fellow R package developers, While the tools::news() function only supports NEWS files in NEWS.Rd format or as a NEWS text file, CRAN supports NEWS.md files which get nicely displayed as https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages//news.html What would be the recommended way to have both, NEWS