Where is a package NEWS.Rd located?
Andy, thanks for providing a clear way of saying it. I thought I was clear in the first place, but oh well). Here is the structure of my source files: hwpkg/DESCRIPTION hwpkg/R/hw.R hwpkg/inst/NEWS.Rd I'm using Windows XP. When I install this package, I do this: Rcmd INSTALL hwpkg Which results in ls c:/r/r-2.12.0/library/hwpkg/ -rwxr-x---+ 1 wrightkevi 355 Jan 6 14:19 DESCRIPTION drwxrwx---+ 2 wrightkevi 0 Jan 6 14:19 Meta -rwxr-x---+ 1 wrightkevi 18 Jan 6 14:19 NEWS.Rd drwxrwx---+ 2 wrightkevi 0 Jan 6 14:19 R drwxrwx---+ 2 wrightkevi 0 Jan 6 14:19 help drwxrwx---+ 2 wrightkevi 0 Jan 6 14:19 html As you see, there is no "inst/NEWS.Rd" file (NEWS.Rd has been moved UP a level), and so news(package="hwpkg") returns nothing. If I build the package into a zipfile and then install.packages(zipfile), the same problem occurs. Kevin
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw at merck.com> wrote:
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
-----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 2:30 PM To: Kevin Wright Cc: R list 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 ?-- ?Kevin Wright
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