[R-pkg-devel] No news entries found

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/07/2022 3:55 p.m., Plamen Mirazchiyski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today I have submitted a new version of the RALSA package. Soon after I
> received an automatic email letting me know that the package did not
> pass some of the pre-tests:

It would be helpful to let us know where to see the troublesome NEWS.md 
file.  Maybe a small change in formatting is causing these false positives.

Duncan Murdoch


> 
>> package RALSA_1.3.0.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically, please see the following pre-tests:
>> Windows:<https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/RALSA_1.3.0_20220707_190307/Windows/00check.log>
>> Status: 2 NOTEs
>> Debian:<https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/RALSA_1.3.0_20220707_190307/Debian/00check.log>
>> Status: 1 NOTE
>>    
>> Last released version's CRAN status: OK: 9, NOTE: 4
>> See:<https://CRAN.R-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RALSA.html>
> 
> To summarize:
> 
> 1. Windows checks found possibly invalid DOIs. This is to be ignored, as
> stated here:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/r-package-devel@r-project.org/msg07116.html
> 
> 2. Windows, Debian (gcc) and Fedora (clang and gcc) drop the following note:
> 
> checking package subdirectories ... NOTE
> Problems with news in 'NEWS.md':
> No news entries found.
> 
> This is rather strange because I have added one of the largest news
> updates I ever made for this package in the NEWS.md file with this
> submission. Further, this note appears only in these four of the 13
> platforms where the package is checked.
> 
> Apparently, this is beyond my control and I can do nothing to fix it on
> my end. I have already replied to the email to notify the
> CRAN-submissions using R-project.org this is a false-positive as advised in
> the email itself, but I thought the mailing list should also be aware of
> this issue.
> 
> Best,
> Plamen
>