[R-pkg-devel] devtools::release() does not release

[Ben Bolker]

   Maybe off-topic, but I see that the tarball is 100+Mb ... won't that 
raise flags upon CRAN submission?  (The current CRAN tarball is <1 Mb ...)

 From the CRAN policies, there's no explicit limit given but ...

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Packages should be of the minimum necessary size. Reasonable compression 
should be used for data (not just .rda files) and PDF documentation: 
CRAN will if necessary pass the latter through qpdf.

As a general rule, neither data nor documentation should exceed 5MB 
(which covers several books). A CRAN package is not an appropriate way 
to distribute course notes, and authors will be asked to trim their 
documentation to a maximum of 5MB.

Where a large amount of data is required (even after compression), 
consideration should be given to a separate data-only package which can 
be updated only rarely (since older versions of packages are archived in 
perpetuity).

Similar considerations apply to other forms of “data”, e.g., .jar files.
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On 11/26/20 5:52 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> Why not use the CRAN submission web page, as documented here: 
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html#Submission?
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> On 26/11/2020 2:57 p.m., Gábor Csárdi wrote:
>> Why not submit a bug report at the devtools repository?
>>
>> ❯ packageDescription("devtools")$BugReports
>> [1] "https://github.com/r-lib/devtools/issues"
>>
>> Gabor
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 7:50 PM Spencer Graves
>> <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>>
>>>            devtools::release() gave the following errors:
>>>
>>>
>>> ...
>>> Ready to submit fda (5.1.7) to CRAN?
>>> 1: Not yet
>>> 2: Absolutely
>>> 3: Uhhhh... Maybe?
>>>
>>> Selection: 2
>>> Uploading package & comments
>>> Confirming submission
>>> Error in if (new_url$query$submit == "1") { : argument is of length zero
>>> In addition: Warning messages:
>>> 1: In charToRaw(enc2utf8(val)) :
>>>    argument should be a character vector of length 1
>>> all but the first element will be ignored
>>> 2: In charToRaw(enc2utf8(val)) :
>>>    argument should be a character vector of length 1
>>> all but the first element will be ignored
>>>
>>>
>>>            Jim Ramsay got this after setwd to what seemed to be the 
>>> appropriate
>>> working directory and then running devtools::release(), as noted above.
>>> As near as both of us can determine, we've followed essentially the same
>>> protocol here as with other package submissions.
>>>
>>>
>>>            In case you want the entire devtools::release() 
>>> transcript, it
>>> appears below running under Big Sur on a Mac.
>>>
>>>
>>>            Suggestions?
>>>            Thanks,
>>>            Spencer Graves & Jim Ramsay
>>>
>>>
>>>> ——————————————————
>>>>
>>>> devtools::release()
>>>>
>>>> Have you checked for spelling errors (with `spell_check()`)?
>>>> 1: Not yet
>>>> 2: Nope
>>>> 3: Absolutely
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 3
>>>> Have you run `R CMD check` locally?
>>>> 1: Yes
>>>> 2: I forget
>>>> 3: No
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 1
>>>> ── Running additional devtools checks for fda ────────────────────────
>>>> Checking version number has three components... OK
>>>> Checking dependencies don't rely on dev versions... OK
>>>> Checking DESCRIPTION doesn't have Remotes field... OK
>>>> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
>>>> Were devtool's checks successful?
>>>> 1: I forget
>>>> 2: No
>>>> 3: Absolutely
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 3
>>>> Have you fixed all existing problems at
>>>> https://cran.rstudio.com//web/checks/check_results_fda.html ?
>>>> 1: Yes
>>>> 2: Not yet
>>>> 3: No
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 1
>>>> Have you checked on R-hub (with `check_rhub()`)?
>>>> 1: Not yet
>>>> 2: I forget
>>>> 3: Definitely
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 3
>>>> Have you checked on win-builder (with `check_win_devel()`)?
>>>> 1: No
>>>> 2: Nope
>>>> 3: Absolutely
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 3
>>>> Have you checked the 67 reverse dependencies (with the revdepcheck
>>> package)?
>>>> 1: Definitely
>>>> 2: No
>>>> 3: Uhhhh... Maybe?
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 1
>>>> Have you updated `NEWS.md` file?
>>>> 1: Uhhhh... Maybe?
>>>> 2: No
>>>> 3: Yeah
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 3
>>>> Have you updated `DESCRIPTION`?
>>>> 1: Yup
>>>> 2: Nope
>>>> 3: I forget
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 1
>>>> Have you updated `cran-comments.md?`
>>>> 1: Nope
>>>> 2: Not yet
>>>> 3: Yeah
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 3
>>>> ── Running Git checks for fda ────────────────────────────────────────
>>>> Current branch: master
>>>> Checking uncommitted files...
>>>> WARNING: All files should be tracked and committed before release.
>>> Please add and commit.
>>>> Checking synchronisation with remote branch...
>>>> ERROR: Error in 'git2r_remote_fetch': unsupported URL protocol
>>>>
>>>> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
>>>> Were Git checks successful?
>>>> 1: Not yet
>>>> 2: Nope
>>>> 3: Yup
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 3
>>>> Is your email address ramsay using psych.mcgill.ca?
>>>> 1: Yup
>>>> 2: I forget
>>>> 3: Uhhhh... Maybe?
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 1
>>>> Building
>>>> ✓  checking for file
>>> ‘/Users/jamesramsay/Documents/R/fda_work/fda/DESCRIPTION’ (437ms)
>>>> ─  preparing ‘fda’: (5.8s)
>>>> ✓  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
>>>> ─  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell
>>> scripts (1.6s)
>>>> ─  checking for empty or unneeded directories
>>>> ─  building ‘fda_5.1.7.tar.gz’
>>>>
>>>> Submitting file:
>>> /var/folders/sc/6zzfzqbs5w7dl8q5g18tlqfc0000gn/T//RtmpbcSyMD/fda_5.1.7.tar.gz 
>>>
>>>> File size: 102.9 Mb
>>>> Ready to submit fda (5.1.7) to CRAN?
>>>> 1: Not yet
>>>> 2: Absolutely
>>>> 3: Uhhhh... Maybe?
>>>>
>>>> Selection: 2
>>>> Uploading package & comments
>>>> Confirming submission
>>>> Error in if (new_url$query$submit == "1") { : argument is of length 
>>>> zero
>>>> In addition: Warning messages:
>>>> 1: In charToRaw(enc2utf8(val)) :
>>>>   argument should be a character vector of length 1
>>>> all but the first element will be ignored
>>>> 2: In charToRaw(enc2utf8(val)) :
>>>>   argument should be a character vector of length 1
>>>> all but the first element will be ignored
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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