[R-pkg-devel] Building fails with 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' does not exist

[Gábor Csárdi]

Your ignore file changes make R (and roxygen) ignore all source files:
https://github.com/sgutreuter/screenr/commit/3eaa9280221aa9885b6c35a758a46fbb2fdb1e46#diff-bc92b187c74649b3e0a039784ff93b39

Undo the `#*` line.

Gabor

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 2:26 PM Steve Gutreuter <sgutreuter using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> First, thank you Bill Dunlap, Peter Dalgaard and Max Turgeon,
>
> I edited (incompletely) the initial posting and failed to change screenr
> to mypackage.  However that was not the source of the problem.
> Windows sysadmins cannot be convinced that paths containing white space
> are pure evil, but that is also not the problem because building also
> fails on a Linux Mint box that uses only sane file/directory names.
> Default installation from GitHub (sgutreuter/screenr) succeeds because
> the version in Master is OK.  The version in branch fixROC fails.
>
> I think that the root of the problem is that the Rd files are not being
> created in /man.  Roxygen2::roxygenize() is failing *silently* (another
> source of frustration).  So I suspect the problem lies somewhere in the
> comments for one or more of the functions.  I am trying to identify
> where from a diff, as Bill suggested.
>
> Best regards,
> Steve
>
>
> On 9/30/19 5:30 PM, William Dunlap wrote:
> > Will the package build if you back out the "minor changes"?  If so,
> > what were the minor changes (show diff output)?
> >
> > Bill Dunlap
> > TIBCO Software
> > wdunlap tibco.com <http://tibco.com>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:24 PM Steve Gutreuter <sgutreuter using gmail.com
> > <mailto:sgutreuter using gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I have a package which will no longer build after minor changes.  The
> >     problem occurs under both Windows 10 and Linux Mint.  For example,
> >     from a
> >     Windows terminal I do:
> >
> >     C:\Users\xyz\OneDrive - ORG\Computing\Devel> R CMD build screenr
> >
> >     and I get:
> >
> >     * checking for file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> >     * preparing 'mypackage':
> >     * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> >     * installing the package to process help pages
> >     * saving partial Rd database
> >      Error in .read_description(ldpath) :
> >        file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' does not exist
> >      Execution halted
> >
> >     So the first and third lines of output contradict the error
> >     message, and of
> >     course mypackage/DESCRIPTION does exist.  I suspect the problem
> >     has nothing
> >     to do with the DESCRIPTION file, but have not found way to
> >     identify the
> >     actual problem in searches on StackOverflow and elsewhere. My .R
> >     files in
> >     mypackage/R contain Roxygen comments, and curiously
> >     devtools::document()
> >     adds nothing to mypackage/man.
> >
> >     Any suggestions about how to debug or solve this problem?
> >
> >     Thanks!
> >     Steve
> >
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