[R] problem with building package on CRAN

[Uwe Ligges]

Package should be online now (or within 24 hours at least).

Apologies for the noise, and please just ask me directly in case you get 
my messages - no need to flood R-help even more ....

Best wishes,
Uwe


On 26.07.2010 23:25, Romain Francois wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> (ccing Rcpp-devel too because this is relevant)
>
> This comes up every now and again on packages that are completely
> unrelated to Rcpp. We don't know yet why or what to do to fix the issue.
> I believe (but this might not be the case) that this is due to packages
> that do use Rcpp and fail to follow our guidelines and documentation and
> emails about using LinkingTo to pull in header files.
> See
> http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/2010-July/000898.html
>
>
> I'm really sorry you are caught in the middle of this, there is probably
> nothing wrong with your package, it just happens sort of randomly. I
> believe the chances of this happening would be lower if package
> developers (of package using Rcpp) would be so kind and follow our
> guidelines, but we can only offer to write the guidelines, we cannot
> force them to read or apply them.
>
> Romain
>
> Le 26/07/10 22:43, William Revelle a écrit :
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>> Dear friends,
>> I have just gotten a strange error message back from Uwe saying that the
>> most recent version of psych failed to pass R CMD check for Windows.
>>
>> The error message was less than helpful, in that it seems to have failed
>> when trying to include the Rcpp library, which I do not directly call.
>> (see below)
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>>
>> "* using log directory 'd:/Rcompile/CRANpkg/local/2.11/psych.Rcheck'
>> * using R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>> * using session charset: ISO8859-1
>> * checking for file 'psych/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>> * this is package 'psych' version '1.0-90'
>> * checking package name space information ... OK
>> * checking package dependencies ... OK
>> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
>> * checking whether package 'psych' can be installed ... ERROR
>> Installation failed.
>> The installation logfile:
>> -Id:/Rcompile/CRANpkg/lib/2.11/Rcpp/include
>>
>>
>>
>> I do have several suggested packages (polycor, GPArotation, MASS, graph,
>> Rgraphviz, mvtnorm, Rcsdp), but none of these are actually required. My
>> examples all ask if the suggested packages are available and then do not
>> call them if they are not.
>>
>> Any suggestions on what to do would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bill
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