[R-SIG-Mac] Problem with CHECK --as-cran on Catalina

[Carl Witthoft]

I plead ignorance here: I don't see an option to create .tgz . The
R CMD BUILD --help just lists "gzip" (default), "none", "bzip2", "xz" 
.Does one of those create the .tgz -type compression?

Carl

On 6/6/20 2:37 PM, Bob Rudis wrote:
> Does it still do it if you build a tar.tgz archive and run it on that?
> 
> I could not dup your problem, but when I tried to run it on a couple
> of my packages that work fine with tar.gz (I use Authors using R) in dir (`R
> CMD check --as-cran .` or parent dir and specify the pkg dir) I get:
> 
>      Required field missing or empty:
>        ‘Author’
> 
> (running last R 4.0.1 beta before the release of R 4.0.1, latest
> Catalina beta AND R 4.0.0 on ubuntu)
> 
> So, def something strange going on.
> 
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 12:47 PM Carl Witthoft <carl using witthoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I recently upgraded to a new iMac w/ Catalina.  Something really strange
>> is happening when I try to run "R CMD CHECK --as-cran  " .
>> If I run it on various older packages that have previously passed the
>> check, all is well.
>>
>> I am writing a new package, and here's the response I get:
>>
>>
>> * using log directory ‘/Users/cgw/Rgames/fitConic.Rcheck’
>> * using R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24)
>> * using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
>> * using session charset: UTF-8
>> * using option ‘--as-cran’
>> * checking for file ‘fitConic/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
>> * this is package ‘fitConic’ version ‘1.0’
>> * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ...Error:  file './DESCRIPTION'
>> does not exist
>> Execution halted
>>
>>
>> This happens whether I run R CMD CHECK  from the parent dirctory
>> /Users/cgw/Rgames  or from the source directory /Users/cgw/Rgames/fitConic .
>>
>> I verified I can edit the DESCRIPTION file in my previous packages &
>> still pass the check.  I even took one of those old DESCRIPTION files
>> and put it into the fitConic directory, and changed only the "Package: "
>> line  .
>>
>> I'm guessing that last error message is not telling me what actually
>> went wrong, but I'm at a loss as to why this new package fails.  I've
>> created a new directory and moved all my files (DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE,
>> and the R & man folders) over. No luck.
>>
>> Is this a hangup somewhere in R 4.0 for OSX, or is there something else
>> going on?   (do I need, for example to do something to give XQuartz more
>> permissions, or some other called app? )
>>
>> thanks
>> --
>> Carl Witthoft
>> carl using witthoft.com
>> resume: https://app.box.com/file/498153801347
>>
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Carl Witthoft
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