[R-pkg-devel] Help with CRAN error

[Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal]

Glad you found the solution.  I would add as an aside,  I have found a good vignette is worth the effort.  R docs tend to be like Unix docs,  relatively short and terse and can be hard for someone not familiar with the package what all the options might do.  A good vignette allows you to lay out in detail how to use the package,  and to do so in context. 

-Roy

> On Feb 4, 2018, at 11:32 AM, Dev Chakraborty <dpc10ster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Roy,
> 
> I don't use a knitR file, but my DESCRIPTION file had a field:
> 
> VignetteBuilder: knitr
> 
> Deleting this field solved the problem (i.e., got rid of that message in my original email)
> 
> Thanks for all your help.
> 
> Dev
> 
>  
> 
> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn at noaa.gov> wrote:
> If you can't find the solution yourself,  posting the top matter of your vignette file would also help.
> 
> -Roy
> 
> > On Feb 4, 2018, at 10:54 AM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Dev Chakraborty <dpc10ster at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> I get the following message on running R CMD check -- as - cran:
> >>
> >> Package has a VignetteBuilder field but no prebuilt vignette index.
> >>
> >> I do not know how to fix this. Any help will be appreciated.
> >>
> > I don't know how to fix it either.  That said, often a great first
> > step is to search for the error.  A Google search for, "Package has a
> > VignetteBuilder field but no prebuilt vignette index.", which points
> > to: https://stackoverflow.com/q/30976308.
> >
> > And a Google search "VignetteBuilder" has several promising "how to"
> > results, and there is a "Non-Sweave Vignettes" section of Writing R
> > Extensions:
> > https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Non_002dSweave-vignettes.
> >
> > It will be easier for others to help you if you can do some
> > investigation on your own and come back with more specifics.
> >
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> Dev
> >>
> >>
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Phone: (831)-420-3666
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"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
"From those who have been given much, much will be expected" 
"the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK Jr.