Re: [R-pkg-devel] Require -package.Rd?

2019-09-30 Thread Georgi Boshnakov
Sorry, in the sequence of emails the context was probably lost, package ? package was a side note. I was referring to (what I believe is a fact) that -package.Rd is not treated by pkgdown as an overall package description but package.Rd is and I think that the recommendation by

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

2019-09-30 Thread William Dunlap
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 On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:24 PM Steve Gutreuter wrote: > I have a package which will no longer build after minor changes. The >

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Require -package.Rd?

2019-09-30 Thread Hadley Wickham
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:07 AM Georgi Boshnakov wrote: > > It is worth noting that > > help(package="") > > shows file -package.Rd, while > > help() > > shows topic "package". > > Topic -package.Rd is also printed at the top of the pdf manual, > while package.Rd follows the alphabetical

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

2019-09-30 Thread peter dalgaard
Is it really called "mypackage"? Otherwise I'd first check that it is spelled the same way in all cases... Another possibility is that the embedded spaces in the pathname is doing you in. -pd > On 30 Sep 2019, at 16:31 , Steve Gutreuter wrote: > > I have a package which will no longer build

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

2019-09-30 Thread Max Turgeon
Hi Steve, Is there a reason why your package is called `screenr`, and yet the output mentions `mypackage` as the name of the package? Did you manually edit the output? If not, then it would perhaps suggest that you have another description file lying around in your directory that's causing

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

2019-09-30 Thread Steve Gutreuter
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 *