[Bioc-devel] EXTERNAL: Re: [R-pkg-devel] DESCRIPTION file building problem

[Marcel Ramos]

Hi Dario,

Gabe is right, you shouldn't be building within the package directory.
Although AFAIK, you should be able to do so. Perhaps if you point us
to your package, we might be able to see the issue...

Regards,

Marcel


On 03/21/2018 06:15 PM, Gabe Becker wrote:
> Dario,
>
> Does this ever happen if you build in the parent directory? I don't think
> building within the package directory is best practice and I'm not sure
> it's (officially) supported at all. The error message seems to support that.
>
> ~G
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Dario Righelli <dario.righelli at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've a package with a DESCRIPTION file inside of it, as usual.
>>
>> It's a couple of times that, when I try to build the package on my local
>> machine or on travis-ci, I get this error:
>>
>> Building package
>> Building with: R CMD build
>> 0.74s$ R CMD build .
>> * checking for file ‘./DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
>> * preparing ‘mypackage’:
>> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...OK
>> * cleaning src
>> Error in .read_description(ldpath) :
>> file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' does not exist
>> Execution halted
>>
>> Someone knows what does it depends on?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> dario
>>
>>
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