The note says it contains "an installed version" of the package,
presumably referring to your test package.
I think you shouldn't do that. For a trivial package it might be true
that the installed version is the same on all systems, but it won't
continue to be as the installation code evolves.
What you could try is to include files that would let you install the
test package into a library under tempdir(). Your tests would start by
installing the test package there, then run the tests, then clean up
afterwards.
It's possible the tests will still complain about that, in which case
I'd go one step further back, and write a function to create the source
package, rather than including it. For example, have a file
DESCRIPTION.txt which your test renames to DESCRIPTION, etc.
Duncan Murdoch
On 11/10/2023 3:06 a.m., Tony Wilkes wrote:
Dear all,
I'm trying to publish an R package to CRAN. Their checks come back with 2 NOTES. The first one is
saying that the package is a new submission, and the second one is that there is a subdirectory
with a package inside my package. Both notes are correct. I have explained in my submission
comments that this is indeed a new submission. I also gave the following explanation for the second
note in my submission comments: "There is 1 NOTE given by the R CMD check results. This is due
to the fact that I have placed fake libraries with fake packages inside the
"inst/tinytest/" folder. This was necessary to test the various import-system related
functions in my package. As stated, these are fake packages, and only contain trivial functions of
no consequence. These fake libraries with fake packages ONLY exist because it is necessary for
proper and extensive unit testing, that is all."
They asked me to fix these notes a few days ago. I replied (politely) repeating
my comments a few days ago. I have not heard back from CRAN since. I am
assuming that I am missing something, but CRAN won't explain what exactly I am
missing.
Here are the NOTES:
Windows:
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Status: 1 NOTE
Debian:
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Status: 2 NOTEs
More details are given in the directory:
<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwin-builder.r-project.org%2Fincoming_pretest%2Ftinycodet_0.1.0.4_20231009_210227%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7Ce3fe951ba4c54110abbb08dbc8fb77c2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638324754614049791%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=73zTGLwQVRlTMnk20rbgTBOn5dCdu16y%2BmhlLS8GIpg%3D&reserved=0<https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/tinycodet_0.1.0.4_20231009_210227/>>
Could anyone tell me what exactly I'm doing wrong? Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Tony
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