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

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Duncan:


Thanks for the reply.


Please excuse: I should have checked that but didn't think to do so.


Thanks again, Spencer Graves


On 8/27/25 14:13, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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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