[R-pkg-devel] Building fails with 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' does not exist

Your ignore file changes make R (and roxygen) ignore all source files:
https://github.com/sgutreuter/screenr/commit/3eaa9280221aa9885b6c35a758a46fbb2fdb1e46#diff-bc92b187c74649b3e0a039784ff93b39

Undo the `#*` line.

Gabor

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 2:26 PM Steve Gutreuter <sgutreuter at gmail.com> wrote:

First, thank you Bill Dunlap, Peter Dalgaard and Max Turgeon,

I edited (incompletely) the initial posting and failed to change screenr
to mypackage.  However that was not the source of the problem.
Windows sysadmins cannot be convinced that paths containing white space
are pure evil, but that is also not the problem because building also
fails on a Linux Mint box that uses only sane file/directory names.
Default installation from GitHub (sgutreuter/screenr) succeeds because
the version in Master is OK.  The version in branch fixROC fails.

I think that the root of the problem is that the Rd files are not being
created in /man.  Roxygen2::roxygenize() is failing *silently* (another
source of frustration).  So I suspect the problem lies somewhere in the
comments for one or more of the functions.  I am trying to identify
where from a diff, as Bill suggested.

Best regards,
Steve


On 9/30/19 5:30 PM, William Dunlap wrote:

Will the package build if you back out the "minor changes"?  If so,
what were the minor changes (show diff output)?

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com <http://tibco.com>


On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:24 PM Steve Gutreuter <sgutreuter at gmail.com
<mailto:sgutreuter at gmail.com>> wrote:

     I have a package which will no longer build after minor changes.  The
     problem occurs under both Windows 10 and Linux Mint.  For example,
     from a
     Windows terminal I do:

     C:\Users\xyz\OneDrive - ORG\Computing\Devel> R CMD build screenr

     and I get:

     * checking for file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
     * preparing 'mypackage':
     * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
     * installing the package to process help pages
     * saving partial Rd database
      Error in .read_description(ldpath) :
        file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' does not exist
      Execution halted

     So the first and third lines of output contradict the error
     message, and of
     course mypackage/DESCRIPTION does exist.  I suspect the problem
     has nothing
     to do with the DESCRIPTION file, but have not found way to
     identify the
     actual problem in searches on StackOverflow and elsewhere. My .R
     files in
     mypackage/R contain Roxygen comments, and curiously
     devtools::document()
     adds nothing to mypackage/man.

     Any suggestions about how to debug or solve this problem?

     Thanks!
     Steve

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