[R-pkg-devel] help understanding "CRAN Package Check Results for Package Ecdat"

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 2025-08-27 2:22 p.m., Spencer Graves wrote:
> Hello, All:
> 
> 
> "CRAN Package Check Results for Package Ecdat"[1] flags a "NOTE" on all
> platforms. I don't understand any of them.
> 
> 
> For example, the check results from some but not all platforms include:
> 
> 
> ** No Authors using R field in DESCRIPTION.
> Please add one, modifying
>     Authors using R: c(person(given = "Yves",
>                         family = "Croissant",
>                         role = "aut",
>                         email = "yves.croissant using let.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr"),
>                  person(given = "Spencer",
>                         family = "Graves",
>                         role = c("aut", "cre"),
>                         email = "spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org"))
> as necessary.
> 
> 
> ** The DESCRIPTION file includes exactly this Author using R field, which
> seems to be what they want, but which I read as complaining it's not
> there. ???

Version 0.4-2 didn't include that.  The link you sent points to check 
results for that version (which was uploaded in 2022).
> 
> 
> ** Some of these check results also complain about "Lost braces". The
> braces seem to be there with the standard syntax that I understand from
> what I read in "Writing R Extensions".

I think the "lost braces" are unnecessary braces.  For example, you have

   \doi{10.18128/D010.V10.0}{IPUMS USA: Version 10.0 [dataset]. 
Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS}

as though \doi{} needs two arguments, but it only needs one.
	
> 
> 
> ** "Found the following Rd file(s) with Rd \link{} targets missing
> package anchors:
>     USFinanceIndustry.Rd: readNIPA"
> 
> 
> ** In that Rd file, I find "\code{\link[Ecfun]{readNIPA}}"

In 0.4-2 you have

\seealso{
   \code{\link{readNIPA}}
}

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> 
> What am I missing? Thanks, Spencer Graves
> 
> 
> [1]
> 
> 
> https://cran.rstudio.com//web/checks/check_results_Ecdat.html
> 
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