[R-SIG-Mac] R CMD Check fails due to error in DESCRIPTION meta-information

[Bart Aelterman]

I found this page describing what "checking for DESCRIPTION
meta-information" actually does. http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/check.html
The most likely problem to me seemed the encoding.

I also found this post:
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Error-during-R-CMD-check-td4668622.html that
points to an incorrectly set locale.

I noticed RStudio gives warnings about my locale when I install packages
("tar: Failed to set default locale"). This post helped me solve that:
http://davidprakash.blogspot.be/2011/05/r-error-tar-failed-to-set-default.html

So essentially, running "defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG
en_US.UTF-8" in my Terminal and restarting RStudio fixed the problem.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Bart Aelterman <bart.aelterman at inbo.be>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing a R package "fishtracking" using RStudio on mac, but checking
> the package fails with the following output:
>
> * using log directory '/path/to/my/package/fishtracking.Rcheck'
> * using R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
> * using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> * using session charset: ASCII
> * using option '--as-cran'
> * checking for file 'fishtracking/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * this is package 'fishtracking' version '0.1'
> * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
> Maintainer: 'Bart Aelterman <bart.aelterman at inbo.be>'
> New submission
>
> The Title field should be in title case, current version then in title
> case:
> 'Manage Fish Tracking Data From VEMCO Telemetry'
> 'Manage Fish Tracking Data from VEMCO Telemetry'
> * checking package namespace information ... OK
> * checking package dependencies ... NOTE
>   No repository set, so cyclic dependency check skipped
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
> * checking if there is a namespace ... OK
> * checking for executable files ... OK
> * checking for hidden files and directories ... OK
> * checking for portable file names ... OK
> * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
> * checking whether package 'fishtracking' can be installed ... OK
> * checking installed package size ... OK
> * checking package directory ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR
> During startup - Warning messages:
> 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"
> 2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C"
> 3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C"
> 4: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C"
> Status: 1 ERROR, 2 NOTEs
>
>
> As adviced by a colleague of mine, I am using the --as-cran option. When
> he checks the package on Windows, no error is returned.
> As noted in the output, I'm using R 3.2.0 on mac (OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks).
> The output of the 00check.log is noted above. The output of 00install.out
> is:
>
> During startup - Warning messages:
> 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"
> 2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C"
> 3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C"
> 4: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C"
> * installing *source* package 'fishtracking' ...
> ** R
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> During startup - Warning messages:
> 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"
> 2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C"
> 3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C"
> 4: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C"
> * DONE (fishtracking)
>
> The content of my DESCRIPTION file is:
>
> Package: fishtracking
> Title: Manage Fish Tracking Data From VEMCO Telemetry
> Date: 2015-04-29
> Version: 0.1
> Author: Bart Aelterman
> Maintainer: Bart Aelterman <bart.aelterman at inbo.be>
> Description: Will help you manage fish tracking telemetry data. It contains
>     a module to load data in a database, perform resendency search and
> other useful
>     techniques.
> Depends: R (>= 3.2.0)
> License: GPL
> LazyData: true
> Imports:
>   lubridate,
>   DBI
> Suggests:
>   testthat
>
>
> I don't know what "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" actually checks
> for and I don't know where to find the meta-information. Has anyone
> experienced this problem before?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> --
>
> *Bart Aelterman*
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>



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*Bart Aelterman*

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Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO)

Kliniekstraat 25, 1070 Brussel

tel 02 525 02 21

bart.aelterman at inbo.be

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