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

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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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