[R-pkg-devel] .bib file in vignette not found during R CMD check

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 28/02/2017 10:44 AM, Patrick Schratz wrote:
> When building the vignette using R CMD Build or
> `devtools::build_vignette()` everything works fine.
>
> However, during R CMD check I get the following
>
> ** checking running R code from vignettes ...*
> *   ‘sperrorest-vignette.Rmd’ using ‘UTF-8’ ... OK*
> * NONE*
> ** checking re-building of vignette outputs ... WARNING*
> *Error in re-building vignettes:*
> *  ...*
> *pandoc-citeproc: Could not find Biblio.bib*
> *CallStack (from HasCallStack):*
> *  error, called at src/Text/CSL/Pandoc.hs:224:39 in
> pandoc-citeproc-0.10.4.1-EdjBizYp62fCPHef3CymGR:Text.CSL.Pandoc*
> *pandoc: Error running filter /usr/local/bin/pandoc-citeproc*
> *Filter returned error status 1*
> *Error: processing vignette 'sperrorest-vignette.Rmd' failed with
> diagnostics:*
> *pandoc document conversion failed with error 83*
> *Execution halted*
>
> The .bib file is lying in `/vignettes`. There is a similar question on SO
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41126556/any-way-of-attaching-csl-bib-files-by-using-knitcitations-package>
> but
> the answer does not address the problem.
> When using full paths everything is fine. However, I cannot use full paths
> when submitting to CRAN.
>
> If you want to check on your own, please use the `dev` branch;
> https://github.com/pat-s/sperrorest/tree/dev
>
> pandoc-citeproc: stable 0.10.4.1 (bottled), HEAD
> pandoc: stable 1.19.2.1 (bottled), HEAD

Your .Rbuildignore file says not to include Biblio.bib.  Don't do that.

Duncan Murdoch