[R-pkg-devel] Problem with Description File

Glenn Schultz glennmschultz at me.com
Tue Sep 1 14:17:59 CEST 2015


I solved the problem. By copying the description file from the R library into the project directory.  Then everything started working
Glenn

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> On Aug 30, 2015, at 1:55 AM, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 30.08.2015 00:37, Glenn Schultz wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I am getting an error that the build directory does not contain a
>> description file.  But there is one in the directory.  Everything was
>> working fine until this error.  Any ideas how to fix it?
>> 
>> ERROR: The build directory does not contain a DESCRIPTION
>> file so cannot be built as a package.
> 
> Is it spelled all upper case? Do you have read permission?
> If on Windows: Is there some hidden filname extension?
> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>> 
>> Glenn
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