[R-pkg-devel] Resubmitting an archived package

[Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal]

If you run a spell checker before you submit  then it helps if you put in your cran-comments.md file  the list of words flagged and that all of them are correct. This makes it just a little easier for CRAN.

-Roy

> On Jun 12, 2024, at 3:35 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>   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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