[R] Building package problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

R CMD check is *not* 'building a package'.  Nor is making a Windows 
binary package.  'Building a package' is creating a source tarball 
from a source directory.

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Joshua Wiley wrote:

> Hi Ed,
>
> If the only error is in examples then this should work:
>
> R CMD check --no-examples foopkg
>
> should not have anything to do with vignettes (although those may also
> not run, who knows).  As far as building a binary, look at:
>
> R CMD INSTALL --help
>
> which leads you to
>
> R CMD INSTALL --build foopkg

And as for the hydroGOF issue, my guess is that the problem is your 
locale or timezone.  But despite the posting guide, you failed to tell 
us. AFAIK CRAN only checks packages in English locales.

(One thing we know is that in Columbia there was no midnight on one of 
the dates in that file.  So hydroGOF really ought to be specifying a 
timezone when reading character datetimes.)

>
> HTH,
>
> Josh
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
> <emammendes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
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>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Joshua Wiley
> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
> Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group
> University of California, Los Angeles
> https://joshuawiley.com/
>
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