[R] Building package problem
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri Nov 11 13:57:11 CET 2011
The posting guide asks for the output of sessionInfo() ....
And what does Sys.timezone() say (it isn't always helpful).
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Eduardo Mendes wrote:
> Hello
> Many thanks for the replies.
>
> I am note sure whether you've got what you meant (Prof. Ripley) but here is the
> output of Sys.getlocale()
>
> > Sys.getlocale()
> [1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC
> _MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1
> 252"
>
> Is that what you meant?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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> Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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