[R-pkg-devel] Resubmitting an archived package

[Ben Bolker]

    As far as I know these are all harmless.

   * the first NOTE is for CRAN consumption
   * the rest are false positives

<CRAN_peeving>

The spell-checking machinery used in package checking is 
under-documented. There are some useful references here

https://github.com/r-lib/usethis/issues/1466
https://ropensci.org/blog/2022/01/21/ropensci-news-digest-january-2022/#to-quote-or-not-to-quote-non-existing-words-in-description
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2016q3/000943.html
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2017q3/001764.html

  I've been meaning to submit a patch to "Writing R Extensions" that 
would describe this, but so far I haven't. However, I also think that 
win-builder does *not* pay attention to the .aspell/ stuff documented 
above ...

</CRAN_peeving>

On 2024-06-12 2:12 p.m., Lucas Godoy wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Recently, my R package {smile} was archived due to NOTES. At the time, I
> was in the final stages of my PhD and unfortunately, I couldn't address the
> issue in time to prevent the package from being archived.
> 
> Long story short, I fixed the issues, and now the `R CMD check --as-cran`
> returns no notes (I'm on a Mac. However, when I submit the package to
> "win-builder" to get it checked on Windows, I get the following NOTES:
> "* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
> Maintainer: 'Lucas da Cunha Godoy <lcgodoy using duck.com>'
> 
> New submission
> 
> Package was archived on CRAN
> 
> Possibly misspelled words in DESCRIPTION:
>    ISSN (17:54)
>    Moraga (13:60)
>    al (14:9)
>    et (13:67)
> 
> CRAN repository db overrides:
>    X-CRAN-Comment: Archived on 2024-04-09 as issues were not corrected
>      in time."
> 
> The "misspelled" words are author names included in the DESCRIPTION file as
> references. Also, there is a note that the package is being archived.
> I used GitHub workflows to get the package checked on Linux as well (see
> here
> <https://github.com/lcgodoy/smile/actions/runs/9486462259/job/26140848384>),
> and there I got a note about sub-directories with more than 1Mb. To this
> point, I don't believe I can further shrink those directories.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix those issues to get the
> package on CRAN?
> My session info is below, just in case.
> 
> R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31)
> Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
> Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.5
> 
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
> 
> LAPACK:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;
>   LAPACK version 3.11.0
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Lucas.
> 
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