[R-pkg-devel] Building fails with 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' does not exist
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 ? ? ? ? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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