[R-pkg-devel] R CMD check: Titles in README

[Ben Bolker]

  Maybe already obvious to you, but this seems to be coming from pandoc,
not from R machinery.  There are a few extra lines in the log that seem
to be relevant ...

[WARNING] This document format requires a nonempty <title> element.
  Defaulting to ‘README’ as the title.
  To specify a title, use ‘title’ in metadata or --metadata title="...".
pandoc: Stack space overflow: current size 33624 bytes.
pandoc: Use `+RTS -Ksize -RTS' to increase it.

  I think you'd have to figure out what's happened to the pandoc
version/configuration in the most recent Debian setup on CRAN ... I
don't know if there's a canonical place (or anywhere, for that matter)
where one can find a complete list of library/tool versions for the
various platforms on CRAN ...

  cheers
   Ben Bolker



On 2019-11-27 4:19 p.m., Sam Albers wrote:
> HI all,
> 
> Submission of a new version of the tidyhydat package to CRAN, I get
> this warning on the pre-test checks for Debian:
> 
> * checking top-level files ... WARNING
> Conversion of ‘README.md’ failed:
> [WARNING] This document format requires a nonempty <title> element.
>   Defaulting to ‘README’ as the title.
>   To specify a title, use ‘title’ in metadata or --metadata title="...".
> 
> Here is the actual log:
> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/tidyhydat_0.5.0_20191127_215625/Debian/00check.log
> 
> The .yaml header for the README has not changed since the last
> successful submission. Looking at the changes to R 3.6.1 patched,
> nothing has changed in README requirement AFAIK.
> 
> Is this a false positive? If not, any thoughts on how to make it go away?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Sam
> 
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