[Rd] Problems building package at CRAN
Marc Schwartz
marc_schwartz at me.com
Thu Nov 12 22:03:25 CET 2009
On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Dominick Samperi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I submitted the package RcppTemplate to CRAN a couple of weeks ago but
> the Mac OS X binary has not appeared, and the person in charge of
> that process
> (Simon) suspects that the problem may be due to a
> "nested DESCRIPTION file" so that "Package:" becomes
> RcppTemplateRcppTemplate, or something like this.
>
> Can somebody explain what a nested DESCRIPTION file is so I can
> resolve this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Dominick
Based upon a quick review of your package's page on CRAN:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcppTemplate/index.html
it would appear that the OSX binary is present and the CRAN check page
at:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RcppTemplate.html
only shows an ERROR for Solaris.
However, upon downloading the source package, you appear to have a
".test" folder within the main package folder, which seems to have a
redundant copy of the full package source within it. That folder of
course includes a duplicate. albeit older, DESCRIPTION file. You
should delete the .test folder to clean up the package source tree and
re-submit.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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