[R-pkg-devel] devtools::check() gives error on missing License field, but License field is not missing

[William Dunlap]

The output of sessionInfo(), at the time of the error, would also be useful
- it will give the versions of devtools, pkgload, and all the other
packages that devtools requires.

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Kevin Ushey <kevinushey using gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be easiest for others to diagnose if you could make your
> package sources available (e.g. on GitHub) so that others might try to
> download your package and reproduce the issue if possible on their own
> machines.
>
> Best,
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:24 AM Rampal S. Etienne
> <rampaletienne using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yesterday I updated the devtools package and suddenly obtained some
> > strange errors when running devtools::check().
> >
> > For instance, I get
> >
> > E checking for file 'secsse/DESCRIPTION'Required field missing or empty:
> > 'License'
> >
> > However. the License line is present. I don't see anything wrong with
> > it. See below.
> >
> > Furthermore, for another package, I get
> >
> > -checking package dependencies ...Error in if (force_suggests) lsuggests
> > : (5.3s)missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
> >
> >
> > The check completes without reporting any warning, note or error, so
> > this error seems an error in the function check itself.
> >
> > Does anyone get these errors too and know how to fix them?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rampal Etienne
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
> >
> >
> > Package: secsse
> > Title: Several Examined and Concealed States-Dependent Speciation and
> >  Extinction
> > Version: 0.1.11
> > License: GPL-3
> > Authors using R: c(
> >  person("Leonel", "Herrera Alsina", email = "leonelhalsina using gmail.com",
> role = "cre"),
> >  person("Paul", "van Els", email = "paulvanels using gmail.com", role =
> "aut"),
> >  person("Rampal", "Etienne", email = "r.s.etienne using rug.nl", role =
> "aut"))
> > Description: It combines the features of HiSSE and MuSSE to
> >  simultaneously infer state-dependent diversification across
> >  two or more traits or states while accounting for the role
> >  of a possible concealed trait.
> > Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
> > Imports: utils,
> >  DDD (> 3.0),
> >  ape,
> >  foreach,
> >  doParallel,
> >  apTreeshape,
> >  phylobase,
> >  geiger,
> >  deSolve
> > Suggests: testthat,
> >  testit,
> >  knitr,
> >  rmarkdown,
> >  doMC,
> >  odeintr
> > Encoding: UTF-8
> > LazyData: true
> > VignetteBuilder: knitr
> > RoxygenNote: 6.1.1
> >
> >
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