[R-pkg-devel] No news entries found
Plamen Mirazchiyski
p|@men@m|r@zch|y@k| @end|ng |rom |ner|@org
Fri Jul 8 14:58:37 CEST 2022
Yes, here is an excerpt from the NEWS.md with a problematic case at the end:
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# RALSA v1.3.0 (2022-07-08)
This update focuses mainly on bugfixes and improvements in the GUI and
its workflow, but also introduces some new features.
## Bug fixes
* All analysis functions, as well `lsa.data.diag`, `lsa.recode.vars` and
`lsa.vars.dict` crash with an error message `Error in
exists(all.vars(match.call())) : first argument has length > 1` when any
of the arguments specifying analysis variables point to objects which
contain character vectors containing them. Thanks to Rodolfo Ilizaliturri.
* `lsa.prctls` - The percentiles on the x-axis are not properly added
for every percentile computed. Thanks to Someone Šomeöne.
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If I remove the accented characters at the very last word, it all works
fine when the package is submitted at CRAN.
Best,
Plamen
On 7/8/2022 2:30 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> 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
> <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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>
> --
> ======================
> Plamen Mirazchiyski, PhD
> International Educational Research and Evaluation Institute
> 24 Tehnološki park
> SI-1000 Ljubljana
> Slovenia
> tel.: +386 51 303 817
> email: plamen.mirazchiyski using ineri.org
>
--
======================
Plamen Mirazchiyski, PhD
International Educational Research and Evaluation Institute
24 Tehnološki park
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
tel.: +386 51 303 817
email:plamen.mirazchiyski using ineri.org
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