[R-pkg-devel] R Vignette Knitting Issues in CRAN Release

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 09/12/2021 5:41 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> did you check the contents of the package file you submitted? The session info in the vignette is quite old, and the build has been packaged by you so I don't think it has anything to do with CRAN, but to make sure, check the file you submitted.

Yes, I think the tarball contained an old version of the .html file. 
The timestamp on it is the same as on many other items in the tarball, 
and that likely means it was put into inst/doc by the build process.

Eric, on Github I notice you have a committed copy of the HTML file in 
the vignettes directory.  This could be the cause of your problem. 
Normally you should only have the vignette source in the vignettes 
directory.  I wouldn't be surprised if git the build process thinks the 
.html file is newer than the .Rmd and doesn't rebuild it, putting a 
stale copy into the tarball.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
>> On Dec 10, 2021, at 10:52 AM, Eric Weine <ericweine15 using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having an issue where my vignette created using R CMD build does not
>> match the vignette created using devtools::build_vignettes or when I knit
>> with RStudio. I posted about this issue on stack overflow here
>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70204611/vignette-table-of-contents-missing-when-package-published-to-cran/70205623?noredirect=1#comment124116982_70205623>.
>> Originally I thought that this might be related to an omission in the
>> DESCRIPTION file, but this no longer seems to be the case. Here is a repost
>> of my initial stack overflow post:
>>
>> I recently released a vignette with version 1.1 of my R package. The Rmd
>> for the vignette can be found here
>> <https://github.com/eweine/qqconf/blob/master/qqconf/vignettes/qqconf_introduction.Rmd>.
>> When I create the vignette locally, I see author information and the table
>> of contents at the top of the vignette, as expected. However, when I
>> submitted this package to CRAN and the vignette was created there
>> <https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/qqconf/vignettes/qqconf_introduction.html>,
>> I no longer see the table of contents or author information. Does anyone
>> know why this may be happening?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric.
>>
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