Message-ID: <99922caa-97d0-4b46-9f82-c0c7feb8e956@effectivedefense.org>
Date: 2025-08-27T19:24:45Z
From: Spencer Graves
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] help understanding "CRAN Package Check Results for Package Ecdat"
In-Reply-To: <c6c60d3a-1915-4091-8e7e-db30e2604356@gmail.com>
Hi, Duncan:
Thanks for the reply.
Please excuse: I should have checked that but didn't think to do so.
Thanks again, Spencer Graves
On 8/27/25 14:13, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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
>>
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