Message-ID: <807a4629-f156-59b1-810f-727ac843b60e@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-07-12T22:04:19Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Non-standard `NUL` file/directory in check directory
In-Reply-To: <CAKcJ18Pv9XQM96vmjJhPW2G-+7mutZZ6mruJBOvK8OkEdUv=MQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/07/2019 2:27 p.m., Hugo Pedder wrote:
> When I have submitted my package to CRAN the auto-check service is showing
> a NOTE on the debian build during the "Check: for non-standard things in
> the check directory":
>
> Found the following files/directories:
> `NUL`
>
> This doesn't happen when I use rhub::check_on_debain(). I'm not sure how to
> fix this - I can't find any files/directories in the package root directory
> (or anywhere else in the package) that aren't either standard, or included
> in .Rbuildignore.
>
> Any suggestions would be massively appreciated!
Do you have one called NUL, or something close (e.g. NUL.txt)? That's a
special name on Windows, so it's not allowed on any R package, even
though most OS's don't treat it specially.
Duncan Murdoch