[R-pkg-devel] Debian: example file is no longer read correctly

[Iñaki Úcar]

2017-12-20 11:11 GMT+01:00 Blume Christine <christine.blume at sbg.ac.at>:
> Dear all,
>
> I guess I need your help again. With debian my package (nparACT) gives an error message that seems to be related to loading the data:
>
>  Warning in is.na(data$activity) :
>      is.na() applied to non-(list or vector) of type 'NULL'
>     Error in 1:a : argument of length 0
>
> Although I have set up a virtual machine to test the package using the R devel version with Linux (Debian), it gives me a hard time to find out what is wrong since I do not manage to install packages using the devel version...
>
> Does anyone know what has changed so this text file is not read in any longer? The code for reading in the text file is:
>
> data <- read.table(paste(path,name, sep="/"), header = F)
>     if (is.data.frame(data)==F){
>       data = as.data.frame(data)
>     }
>     if(ncol(data) == 2){
>       data[,1] <- as.POSIXct(data[,1])
>       data[,2] <- as.numeric(as.character(data[,2]))
>       names(data)[1] <- "time"
>       names(data)[2] <- "activity"
>    }
>     if(ncol(data) == 3){
>       names(data)[1] <- "date"
>       names(data)[2] <- "time"
>       names(data)[3] <- "activity"
>       data$date <- NULL
>       data$time <- as.POSIXct(data$time, format="%H:%M:%S")
>       data$activity <- as.numeric(as.character(data$activity))
>     }
>
> Or can someone tell me how to install the package using R devel on Linux?

You can try on rhub: https://github.com/r-hub/rhub

Iñaki