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

[Carl Witthoft]

  I always run R CMD BUILD before R CMD CHECK.  I popped open the tar.gz 
file and the folder did include DESCRIPTION.  So it's there, all right. 
I notice the 'build' folder contains one file, 'partial.rdb' . I don't 
have anything requiring compilation, so I'm not sure why there's a 
'build' directory at all.



On 6/6/20 4:29 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> AFAIK tgz is one possible file name extension equivalent to .tar.gz, which implies gzip compression, so I think Bob was just being a bit sloppy when he wrote tar.tgz.
> 
> Key point is not that a particular compression makes a difference, but that the check needs to be run on a source archive rather than the in-place source you have been editing. He was confirming that you are making that file and specifying it when checking.
> 
> On June 6, 2020 11:59:24 AM PDT, Carl Witthoft <carl using witthoft.com> wrote:
>> 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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