[R-pkg-devel] help understanding "CRAN Package Check Results for Package Ecdat"

On 2025-08-27 2:22 p.m., Spencer Graves wrote:

Hello, All:


"CRAN Package Check Results for Package Ecdat"[1] flags a "NOTE" on all
platforms. I don't understand any of them.


For example, the check results from some but not all platforms include:


** No Authors at R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
??? Authors at R: c(person(given = "Yves",
??????????????????????? family = "Croissant",
??????????????????????? role = "aut",
??????????????????????? email = "yves.croissant at let.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr"),
???????????????? person(given = "Spencer",
??????????????????????? family = "Graves",
??????????????????????? role = c("aut", "cre"),
??????????????????????? email = "spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org"))
as necessary.


** The DESCRIPTION file includes exactly this Author at R field, which
seems to be what they want, but which I read as complaining it's not
there. ???

Version 0.4-2 didn't include that.? The link you sent points to check 
results for that version (which was uploaded in 2022).

** Some of these check results also complain about "Lost braces". The
braces seem to be there with the standard syntax that I understand from
what I read in "Writing R Extensions".

I think the "lost braces" are unnecessary braces.? For example, you have

 ? \doi{10.18128/D010.V10.0}{IPUMS USA: Version 10.0 [dataset]. 
Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS}

as though \doi{} needs two arguments, but it only needs one.

** "Found the following Rd file(s) with Rd \link{} targets missing
package anchors:
??? USFinanceIndustry.Rd: readNIPA"


** In that Rd file, I find "\code{\link[Ecfun]{readNIPA}}"

In 0.4-2 you have

\seealso{
 ? \code{\link{readNIPA}}
}

Duncan Murdoch

What am I missing? Thanks, Spencer Graves


[1]


https://cran.rstudio.com//web/checks/check_results_Ecdat.html