[R-pkg-devel] R Package Submission Problem

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Wed Sep 27 21:29:19 CEST 2017


More important:

Checking should be performed on sources prepared by 'R CMD build'.

So at first prepare the sources via R CMD build and then check yourself 
prior to submission following the CRAN policies. And *really* read that.

Best,
Uwe Ligges





On 27.09.2017 21:02, MTurgeon wrote:
> Hi Younathan,
> 
> You can ignore the first note: it simply says that this is a new package.
> 
> The second note highlights a few possible problems with your DESCRIPTION 
> file. It flags the word "Plasmode" as being possibly misspelled; if it 
> isn't, you can ignore the comment. Then it points out that the Title 
> field contains the name of the package; as per CRAN policy, you 
> shouldn't do that (cf. the manual, 
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#The-DESCRIPTION-file). 
> 
> 
> Finally, the third note says that there is a file in the tarball that 
> shouldn't be there, namely Plasmode.Rproj. You can control what is 
> omitted from the tarball using the .Rbuildignore file. In particular, 
> you could add the following line:
> 
> ^Plasmode\.Rproj$
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> On 2017-09-27 11:47 AM, Abdia, Younathan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My name is Younathan and I am trying to submit it but every time it 
>> gives me message that my package does not pass the incoming checks 
>> automatically and it gives me 3 NOTES. I tried to fix them but I am 
>> unable to do so. If possible do you know how to take care of the 3 
>> Notes. The three notes are as following:
>>
>> * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
>> Maintainer: 'Younathan Abdia <yabdia at bwh.harvard.edu>'
>>
>> New submission
>>
>> Possibly mis-spelled words in DESCRIPTION:
>>    Plasmode (3:8)
>>
>> The Title field starts with the package name.
>>
>> The build time stamp is missing.
>>
>>
>> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
>>
>> Checking should be performed on sources prepared by 'R CMD build'.
>>
>> * checking top-level files ... NOTE
>>
>> Non-standard file/directory found at top level:
>>
>>    'Plasmode.Rproj'
>>
>> You can also see the NOTES by clicking on the link.
>>
>> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170927_165838_Plasmode_010/00check.log 
>>
>>
>> Please let me know if there is any question or concern. Thank you for 
>> help.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Younathan
>>
>>
>>
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