[R] Error with Rcmd check library --as-cran

[David Winsemius]

On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> paleotree imports phangorn which depends on Matrix, so your example
> does indeed depend on Matrix.
>
> A possible reason is that your installed Matrix was built for a
> different version of R, i.e. check packageDescription("Matrix").

I thought Matrix was included by default as of a couple of R versions  
ago?

-- 
David.
>
> /Henrik
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:23 PM, David Bapst <dwbapst at uchicago.edu>  
> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I was checking the newest update of my library before submitting it  
>> to
>> CRAN, using R 2.15.0 and Rtools for Windows 215 using Rcmd in the  
>> Command
>> Prompt, on my x64 Windows7 laptop. I recently heard that for checking
>> packages for CRAN submission one should use the option --as-cran;
>> previously I was submitting packages, so I was trying that for the  
>> first
>> time. The check proceeds fine until it tries running the examples,  
>> at which
>> point it produces the following error message:
>>
>>> pkgname <- "paleotree"
>>> source(file.path(R.home("share"), "R", "examples-header.R"))
>>> options(warn = 1)
>>> options(pager = "console")
>>> library('paleotree')
>> Loading required package: ape
>> Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths())) :
>>  there is no package called 'Matrix'
>> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'paleotree'
>> Execution halted
>>
>> My package depends on ape, but not Matrix. Matrix is installed,  
>> though, on
>> my workstation, as are the other ape dependencies. The check works  
>> fine by
>> default and with the --timings option. What is different about --as- 
>> cran
>> that makes it unable to find Matrix?
>>
>> Thanks for the help,
>> -Dave Bapst, UChicago
>>
>> --
>> David Bapst
>> Dept of Geophysical Sciences
>> University of Chicago
>> 5734 S. Ellis
>> Chicago, IL 60637
>> http://home.uchicago.edu/~dwbapst/
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>>
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>>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT