[R-pkg-devel] R CMD INSTALL succeeds while R CMD BUILD fails

[Hong Ooi]

It looks like the ".rdata" in your package name is confusing R CMD BUILD into thinking there is a .rdata file involved. Consider renaming it to "bcmaps.data" or something similar.


-----Original Message-----
From: R-package-devel <r-package-devel-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Sam Albers
Sent: Friday, 11 January, 2019 2:07 PM
To: r-package-devel using r-project.org
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD INSTALL succeeds while R CMD BUILD fails

Hello all,

I am experiencing some issues with building a package that we are hosting on GitHub. The package itself is quite large.  It is a data package with a bunch of spatial files stored as .rds files.

The repo is located here: https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fbcgov%2Fbcmaps.rdata&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7C6ac8c309c7b84a8de4d208d677fef252%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C1%7C636828334223679364&sdata=GosuFnTADrpxapDMNQSMxKoI9B4aPtIw7LwPwoCmYxU%3D&reserved=0

If we clone that package to local machine via:
git clone https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fbcgov%2Fbcmaps.rdata&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7C6ac8c309c7b84a8de4d208d677fef252%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C1%7C636828334223679364&sdata=GosuFnTADrpxapDMNQSMxKoI9B4aPtIw7LwPwoCmYxU%3D&reserved=0

The first oddity is that the package installs successfully using this:

$ R CMD INSTALL "./bcmaps.rdata"

But fails when I try to build the package:

$ R CMD BUILD "./bcmaps.rdata"
* checking for file './bcmaps.rdata/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'bcmaps.rdata':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added Warning in gzfile(file, "rb") :
  cannot open compressed file 'bcmaps.rdata', probable reason 'Permission denied'
Error in gzfile(file, "rb") : cannot open the connection Execution halted


The second oddity is that if I remove the . from the Package name in the DESCRIPTION file, the build proceeds smoothly:

$ R CMD build "./bcmaps.rdata"
* checking for file './bcmaps.rdata/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'bcmapsrdata':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added
* building 'bcmapsrdata_0.2.0.tar.gz'

I am assuming that R CMD install builds the package internally so I find it confusing that I am not able to build it myself. Similarly confusing is the lack of a . in the package name indicative of anything?

Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks in advance,

Sam

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