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NOTE when checking CRAN income feasibility

2 messages · Gunther Schauberger, Martin Maechler

Gunther Schauberger
# 
Hello,

recently I submitted a new version of my package EffectStars to CRAN, 
but I was told that the following note arises:

* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: ?Gunther Schauberger
<gunther.schauberger at stat.uni-muenchen.de>?

Can you pls remove the line break in the DESCRIPTION file?


There is clearly no line break in the description file, and the package check works fine if I do it with R 3.0.2. The note only appears with R devel.

Am I the only one with this problem? Do you have any advice how to deal with it?

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Gunther Schauberger

DESCRIPTION-file:

Package: EffectStars
Type: Package
Title: Visualization of Categorical Response Models
Version: 1.4
Date: 2014-02-25
Depends: VGAM
Author: Gunther Schauberger
Maintainer: Gunther Schauberger <gunther.schauberger at stat.uni-muenchen.de>
Description: The package provides functions to visualize regression 
models with categorical response. The effects of the covariates are 
plotted with star plots in order to allow for an optical impression of 
the fitted model.
License: GPL-2
LazyLoad: yes
Martin Maechler
# 
> Hello,
    > recently I submitted a new version of my package EffectStars to CRAN, 
    > but I was told that the following note arises:

    > * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
    > Maintainer: ?Gunther Schauberger
    > <gunther.schauberger at stat.uni-muenchen.de>?

    > Can you pls remove the line break in the DESCRIPTION file?


    > There is clearly no line break in the description file, and the package check works fine if I do it with R 3.0.2. The note only appears with R devel.


    > Am I the only one with this problem? Do you have any advice how to deal with it?

You are not at all alone.
I've seen it for all/many of my packages when using R-devel for quite
a while, at least with

  R CMD check --as-cran  <pkg>

I never got a clue about the reason for the NOTE, but assumed
the CRAN maintainers wanted to see the maintainer address for
some reason, and I had decided to gladly let them see it... ;-)

Martin


    > Thanks in advance and best regards,
    > Gunther Schauberger

    > DESCRIPTION-file:

    > Package: EffectStars
    > Type: Package
    > Title: Visualization of Categorical Response Models
    > Version: 1.4
    > Date: 2014-02-25
    > Depends: VGAM
    > Author: Gunther Schauberger
    > Maintainer: Gunther Schauberger <gunther.schauberger at stat.uni-muenchen.de>
    > Description: The package provides functions to visualize regression 
    > models with categorical response. The effects of the covariates are 
    > plotted with star plots in order to allow for an optical impression of 
    > the fitted model.
    > License: GPL-2
    > LazyLoad: yes


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