[R-pkg-devel] R Package Submission Problem

[Ben Bolker]

Also from the CRAN submission guidelines:

> If there are warnings or notes you cannot eliminate (for example
because you believe them to be spurious) send an explanatory note as
part of your covering email, or as a comment on the submission form.

  This would apply to your spelling issues.


On 17-09-27 03:29 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 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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