[R] Building package problem

[Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes]

Dear R-users

I am trying to recompile a CRAN package on Windows 32.   Rtools for 2.14 (that is the version I am running) and miktex were sucessfully installed on my machine.

Problems:

a) hydroGOF is a CRAN package, but R CMD check does not work on it.

C:\Users\eduardo\Documents\R_tests2>R CMD check hydroGOF
* using log directory 'C:/Users/eduardo/Documents/R_tests2/hydroGOF.Rcheck'
* using R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
* using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
* using session charset: ISO8859-1
* checking for file 'hydroGOF/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* checking extension type ... Package
* this is package 'hydroGOF' version '0.3-2'
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking if there is a namespace ... OK
* checking for executable files ... OK
* checking whether package 'hydroGOF' can be installed ... OK
* checking installed package size ... OK
* checking package directory ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking top-level files ... OK
* checking index information ... OK
* checking package subdirectories ... OK
* checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
* checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
* checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
* checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
* checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
* checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
* checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in R code ... OK
* checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
* checking replacement functions ... OK
* checking foreign function calls ... OK
* checking R code for possible problems ... OK
* checking Rd files ... OK
* checking Rd metadata ... OK
* checking Rd cross-references ... OK
* checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
* checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
* checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
* checking Rd contents ... OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... OK
* checking contents of 'data' directory ... OK
* checking data for non-ASCII characters ... OK
* checking data for ASCII and uncompressed saves ... OK
* checking examples ... ERROR
Running examples in 'hydroGOF-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: plot2
> ### Title: Plotting 2 Time Series
> ### Aliases: plot2
> ### Keywords: dplot
>
> ### ** Examples
>
> sim <- 2:11
> obs <- 1:10
> ## Not run:
> ##D plot2(sim, obs)
> ## End(Not run)
>
> ##################
> # Loading daily streamflows of the Ega River (Spain), from 1961 to 1970
> require(zoo)
Loading required package: zoo

Attaching package: 'zoo'

The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base':

    as.Date, as.Date.numeric

> data(EgaEnEstellaQts)
> obs <- EgaEnEstellaQts
>
> # Generating a simulated daily time series, initially equal to the observed se
ries
> sim <- obs
>
> # Randomly changing the first 2000 elements of 'sim', by using a normal distri
bution
> # with mean 10 and standard deviation equal to 1 (default of 'rnorm').
> sim[1:2000] <- obs[1:2000] + rnorm(2000, mean=10)
>
> # Plotting 'sim' and 'obs' in 2 separate panels
> plot2(x=obs, y=sim)
>
> # Plotting 'sim' and 'obs' in the same window
> plot2(x=obs, y=sim, plot.type="single")
Error in as.POSIXlt.character(x, tz, ...) :
  character string is not in a standard unambiguous format
Calls: plot2 ... as.POSIXct.default -> as.POSIXct -> as.POSIXlt -> as.POSIXlt.ch
aracter
Execution halted

b) option --binary is no longer available, is that so?  How can an extension zip can be built on Windows?

R CMD build --no-vignettes hydroGOF works.   And R CMD INSTALL hydroGOFxx.tar.gz too.

Many thanks

Ed