[R-pkg-devel] package installation and linking with JAGS

On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 11:06:31 +0200

Check: for GNU extensions in Makefiles, Result: WARNING

This warning is easy to deal with:

JAGS_ROOT ?= c:/progra~1/JAGS/JAGS-4.3.0

Use plain "=" macro definitions, since others aren't considered portable
enough.

SOURCES= $(wildcard *.cc) $(wildcard */*.cc)

Replace $(wildcard ...) with hard-coded lists of files.

See the POSIX standard [*], or, indeed, section 'Writing portable
packages' in WRE [**] for a list of Make features considered portable.

Alternatively, add "GNU make" to SystemRequirements: in your
DESCRIPTION. This will silence the warnings, but require the GNU
flavour of Make to install your package.

2) the package installation works only from the source. For example,
devtools::install_github() returns an error since .o files are
generated inside of the package folder. A similar problem occurs when
generating the source .tar.gz, however, manually deleting the .o files
from it fixes the problem and it can be used for installing the
package.

How do you build the source package before installing it? I tried to
git clone your package, then R CMD build . it, and got a perfectly valid
RoBMA_0.0.0.9000.tar.gz without any *.o files inside. I *think* that R
CMD INSTALL <directory> may be not a good idea, but you can add .*\.o$
to .Rbuildignore to prevent the object files from getting inside your
source package this way.

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Best regards,
Ivan

[*]
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/make.html

[**]
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Writing-portable-packages