Message-ID: <54C6003C.4000600@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2015-01-26T08:52:12Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: R CMD check message: "The following files should probably not be installed"
In-Reply-To: <986A5055-890F-4E56-91C9-1006ADEB9599@anu.edu.au>
On 25/01/2015 23:25, John Maindonald wrote:
> I am doing [R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31) -- "Pumpkin Helmet?; Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)]
>
>> R CMD build DAAGviz
>> R CMD check DAAGviz_1.0.3.tar.gz
>
> Without a .Rinstignore file, I get:
>
> <<<
> The following files should probably not be installed:
> ?figs10.pdf?, ?figs11.pdf?, ?figs12.pdf?, ?figs13.pdf?, ?figs14.pdf?,
> ?figs5.pdf?, ?figs6.pdf?, ?figs9.pdf?
>
> Consider the use of a .Rinstignore file: see ?Writing R Extensions?,
> or move the vignette sources from ?inst/doc? to ?vignettes?.
>>>>
>
> The vignette sources were in ?vignettes? when DAAGviz_1.0.3.tar.gz was created. There was nothing in the ?inst/doc? directory.
>
> If I have in my .Rinstignore file
>
> inst/doc/.*[.]pdf
That filters out more than the files warned about. I guess you meant
inst/doc/figs.*[.]pdf
But the question has to be: how did the files get copied into inst/doc?
Maybe
'When R CMD build builds the vignettes, it copies these and the vignette
sources from directory vignettes to inst/doc. To install any other files
from the vignettes directory, include a file vignettes/.install_extras
which specifies these as Perl-like regular expressions on one or more
lines. (See the description of the .Rinstignore file for full details.)'
suggests how?
> then I get:
>
> <<<
> * checking package vignettes in ?inst/doc? ... WARNING
> Package vignettes without corresponding PDF/HTML:
> . . .
>>>>
>
> What am I missing? Can I ignore the "The following files should probably not be installed? message?
Not if you want to submit the package to CRAN.
>
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