[R-pkg-devel] Debian note: non-standard things in the check directory

[Vihtakari, Mikko]

Dear R developers,

I submitted my package (https://github.com/MikkoVihtakari/ggOceanMaps) to CRAN and got a note I have not seen before in this context. R CMD check --as-cran on the source version, rhub::check_for_cran(), and devtools::check() all run without problems. So did CRAN checks on every platform except Debian. Here is the log I received from CRAN:

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Flavor: r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64
Check: CRAN incoming feasibility, Result: NOTE
  Maintainer: 'Mikko Vihtakari <mikko.vihtakari using hi.no>'

  New submission

  Package was archived on CRAN

  Possibly misspelled words in DESCRIPTION:
    GitHub (26:13)
    bathymetric (18:38)
    geospatial (24:3)
    shapefiles (23:24, 25:17, 25:45)

  CRAN repository db overrides:
    X-CRAN-Comment: Archived on 2021-06-04 as check problems were not
      corrected in time.

  Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories:
    ggOceanMapsData
  Availability using Additional_repositories specification:
    ggOceanMapsData   yes   https://mikkovihtakari.github.io/drat

Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64
Check: package dependencies, Result: NOTE
  Package suggested but not available for checking: 'ggOceanMapsData'

Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
Check: CRAN incoming feasibility, Result: NOTE
  Maintainer: 'Mikko Vihtakari <mikko.vihtakari using hi.no>'

  New submission

  Package was archived on CRAN

  Possibly misspelled words in DESCRIPTION:
    bathymetric (18:38)
    geospatial (24:3)
    shapefiles (23:24, 25:17, 25:45)

  CRAN repository db overrides:
    X-CRAN-Comment: Archived on 2021-06-04 as check problems were not
      corrected in time.

  Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories:
    ggOceanMapsData
  Availability using Additional_repositories specification:
    ggOceanMapsData   yes   https://mikkovihtakari.github.io/drat

Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
Check: for non-standard things in the check directory, Result: NOTE
  Found the following files/directories:
    'ggOceanMapsData'

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I am lost with what they mean by "Check: for non-standard things in the check directory, Result: NOTE  Found the following files/directories:  'ggOceanMapsData'".

The package requires ggOceanMapsData package to function. That package is too large for CRAN and has been placed in a drat repository on Github. I have used install.packages() in the vignette ( https://github.com/MikkoVihtakari/ggOceanMaps/blob/3c3d4daa5a26b262db569a3465208face0fca731/vignettes/ggOceanMaps.Rmd#L17) to make it possible to compile the vignette. Could it be that the check on Debian has begun to pick on this line for some reason? As said, I have not encountered this issue before, and the package was on CRAN before being pulled by another problem.

Any insight would be appreciated.

All the best,

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Mikko Vihtakari
PhD in Natural Science
Researcher
Deep sea species and cartilaginous fish
Institute of Marine Research
Fram Centre, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
Email: mikko.vihtakari using hi.no<mailto:mikko.vihtakari using hi.no>
Tel: +47-91891316
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