[R-pkg-devel] No news entries found

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Good you figured it out. If you can share a minimal NEWS.md illustrating
the problem here, it'll probably help lots of others who run into the same
problem. It might even be bug that your have discovered, but without
details no one can improve on it.

/Henrik

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022, 14:23 Plamen Mirazchiyski <
plamen.mirazchiyski using ineri.org> wrote:

> Thank you all for your help.
>
> I have found the problem - I had accented characters in names of people
> I was thanking for discovering bugs. After replacing them with
> non-accented characters everything went just fine and the package is on
> its way to CRAN.
>
> I do find, though, the message "No news entries found." quite
> misleading. Yes, there is a problem, but the message is not even close
> to what actual the problem is. Unfortunately, the r-svn repository on
> GitHub does not have the possibility to report this as an issue.
>
> Thank you once again.
>
> Best,
> Plamen
>
> On 7/8/2022 12:21 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> > )There's been recent updates in R-devel
> > (
> https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/baf375d8b65414daebf85e226a1e5103a93ab138
> > that do more validation of the syntax/format in NEWS and NEWS.md
> > files. This was done to make sure news() works in more cases (e.g. it
> > may return just NULL if the NEWS.md file is not formatted as the tool
> > expect).  I guess it will also help render NEWS/NEWS.md files on the
> > CRAN package pages.
> >
> > If you run,
> >
> > news(package = "RALSA")
> >
> > and see the NEWS entries, then the format should be correct, otherwise
> > not.  You can use:
> >
> > news <- tools:::.build_news_db_from_package_NEWS_md("NEWS.md")
> > if (is.null(news)) stop("Syntax error in NEWS.md")
> >
> > to troubleshoot.  If you get an error, i.e. 'news' is NULL, then you
> > need to fix up your NEWS.md file.  I don't think the format is
> > documented yet, so you might have to do some trial error to figure it
> > out.  Although it's not an official format, if you follow
> > https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/reference/build_news.html, it typically
> > works.  When I did it some weeks ago, I started with a minimal
> > NEWS.md, e.g. the top version, and then I added the other entries back
> > to find which ones were problematic.  See
> >
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HenrikBengtsson/progressr/0.10.1/NEWS.md
> > for an example that works on CRAN
> > (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/progressr/news/news.html) and
> > with news(package = "progressr").
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Henrik
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 11:37 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> 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
> >>>
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