[R-pkg-devel] Error uploading file on CRAN

[Duncan Murdoch]

Thanks Spencer.  Yes, devtools does give good support for CRAN updates 
these days.

Duncan Murdoch

On 27/11/2022 12:07 p.m., Spencer Graves wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/27/22 10:44 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 27/11/2022 11:29 a.m., Jahajeeah, Havisha wrote:
>>> Dear CRAN team,
>>>
>>> The Greymodels package has been debugged and the updated package has been
>>> published on Github.
>>>
>>> I would be very much grateful if the app could be updated on CRAN.
>>
>> That needs to be done by the maintainer (that's you, I think), according
>> to the CRAN submission instructions here:
>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html .  The last
>> section tells you how to do an update, but don't skip the earlier ones.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> 
> Thanks, Duncan.
> 
> 
> 	  In addition to Duncan's comments, I perceive the development version
> of Wickham and Bryan's "R Packages" to be also quite useful:
> 
> 
> https://r-pkgs.org
> 
> 
> 	  To make this simpler for me, I've summarized what I've gotten from
> the CRAN source Duncan mentioned and from Wickham and Bryan in a file
> with a name like "release_to_CRAN.R".  I add such a file to the packages
> I maintain on GitHub, while adding that file name to ".Rbuildignore".
> Anything in ".Rbuildignore" is available to me but is not submitted to
> CRAN.  For an example of the current status of one such file, see:
> 
> 
> https://github.com/sbgraves237/Ecdat/blob/master/Ecdat_release_to_CRAN.R
> 
> 
> 	  Hope this helps.
> 	  Spencer Graves
> 
>>
>>>
>>> I look forward to hearing from you.
>>>
>>> Thanking you and sincerely
>>> Havisha Jahajeeah
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 12:30 PM Jahajeeah, Havisha <hjahajeeah using utm.ac.mu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear CRAN team,
>>>>
>>>> The package 'Greymodels' has just been published on CRAN. After loading
>>>> the package on CRAN, when I try to upload file (xlsx or xls)
>>>> the following error appears:
>>>>
>>>> Error: cannot open the connection
>>>>
>>>> What could be the problem? Is it because of the working directory?
>>>>
>>>> Please advise on how to fix this.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>> Havisha Jahajeeah
>>>>
>>>
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