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Where is a package NEWS.Rd located?

Liaw, Andy

Thu, Jan 6, 2011 12:06 PM

I was communicating with Kevin off-list.

The problem seems to be run time, not install time.  News() calls
tools:::.build_news_db(), and the 2nd line of that function is:

 nfile <- file.path(dir, "inst", "NEWS.Rd")

and that's the problem:  an installed package shouldn't have an inst/
subdirectory, right?

Andy

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[mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 2:30 PM
To: Kevin Wright
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Subject: Re: [R] Where is a package NEWS.Rd located?

On 06/01/2011 2:19 PM, Kevin Wright wrote:

Yes, exactly.  But the problem is with NEWS.Rd, not NEWS.

I'm not sure who you are arguing with, but if you do file a 
bug report, 
please also put together a simple reproducible example, e.g. a small 
package containing NEWS.Rd in the inst directory (which is where the 
docs say it should go) and code that shows why this is bad.  
Don't just 
talk about internal functions used for building packages; as 
far as we 
can tell so far tools:::.build_news_db is doing exactly what 
it should 
be doing.

Duncan Murdoch

pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd is moved to pkg/NEWS.Rd at build time, but for
installed packages, "news" tried to load "pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd".

I'm going to file a bug report.

Kevin


On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Kevin

Wright<kw.stat at gmail.com>  wrote:

 If you look at tools:::.build_news_db, the plain text

NEWS file is

 searched for in pkg/NEWS and pkg/inst/NEWS, but NEWS.Rd in only
 searched for in pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd.

 Looks like a bug to me.

 I *think*.

 Thanks,

 Kevin


 On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Kevin

Wright<kw.stat at gmail.com>  wrote:

 Hopefully a quick question.  My package has a NEWS.Rd

file that is not

 being found by "news".

 The "news" function calls "tools:::.build_news_db"

which has this line:

 nfile<- file.path(dir, "inst", "NEWS.Rd")

 So it appears that the "news" function is searching for
 "mypackage/inst/NEWS.Rd".

 However, "Writing R extensions" says "The contents of the inst
 subdirectory will be copied recursively to the

installation directory"

 During the installation, mypackage/inst/NEWS.Rd is

copied into the

 "mypackage" directory, not "mypackage/inst".

 What am I doing wrong, or is this a bug?

 Kevin Wright



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