Re: [R-pkg-devel] Assistance Needed to Resolve CRAN Submission Note

Dear Zeinab Perhaps the insights in https://github.com/tidymodels/infer/issues/455 will help you especially if you are using roxygen2 Michael On 16/05/2024 17:01, Zeinab Mashreghi wrote: Hi, Thank you very much for your helpful suggestion! Following your advice, I revisited the package

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Assistance Needed to Resolve CRAN Submission Note

Dear Zeinab It would help if you gave us more information. What exactly was the NOTE which it gave you? Michael On 16/05/2024 04:22, Zeinab Mashreghi wrote: Hi, I hope this message finds you well. I recently submitted my R package to CRAN, and I received this note from the CRAN teams:

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Inquiry Regarding Package Organization in CRAN

Dear Andriy I would second the advice that David and Ivan have already given. I woouls also add that I suspect that most users search for packages by functionality so you might want to study techniques for search engine optimisation and then advise authors how to increase the visibility of

Re: [R-pkg-devel] winbuilder

Dear Roy When I just checked using the winbuilder_queue function from the foghorn package it seemed to respond and had one package in the queue. Not sure that is definitive evicence. Michael On 18/10/2023 16:16, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via R-package-devel wrote: I am not sure who

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN Submission to update archived packages (mdsdt)

Dear Joe Comments in-line. On 14/10/2023 21:47, Joe Houpt via R-package-devel wrote: Hello, I am having some trouble submitting a package to CRAN that had previously been archived. I went through all of the notes and all that is left is pasted below. Anything I am missing or that I need to

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problem persists, was Re: Problem compressing vignettes for CRAN

adening my knowledge of useful functions like Sys.which(). Michael On 09/10/2023 08:51, Ivan Krylov wrote: On Sun, 8 Oct 2023 16:47:41 +0100 Michael Dewey wrote: Following on from Ivan's advice I have now installed qpdf and Ghostview. I have checked that they are both on my path by typing

[R-pkg-devel] Problem persists, was Re: Problem compressing vignettes for CRAN

cript? Michael On 06/10/2023 16:30, Michael Dewey wrote: Dear Ivan You must have psychic powers. After some digging I find that the copy installed by TexLive is hidden from other software so I need to install it again. I suppose while I am at it I should try installing qpdf. Michael On 06/10

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problem compressing vignettes for CRAN

:45 +0100 Michael Dewey пишет: But I did use the option --compact-vignettes=both when I built the tarball. I do have gs installed but not qpdf. I built the package under Windows if that is relevant. Is the Ghostscript executable on the %PATH%? It might help to install a newer version. It may

[R-pkg-devel] Problem compressing vignettes for CRAN

I am trying to update my CRAN package metap. When I ran a final check on winbuilder I got the warning * checking sizes of PDF files under 'inst/doc' ... WARNING 'gs+qpdf' made some significant size reductions: compacted 'compare.pdf' from 498Kb to 243Kb compacted 'plotmetap.pdf'

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Unfortunate function name generic.something

Dear Ulrike Even though it will undobtedly be a lot of work to rename levels.no I cannot help feeling that by fighting against the system you may be storing up trouble for yourself in future when some upgrade breaks your current solution and you have to make yet more changes. Michael On

Re: [R-pkg-devel] correcting errors in an existing package

Comment in-line On 02/04/2023 06:37, Ivan Krylov wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:51:40 -0400 Dennis Boos wrote: Also, I keep getting the message in the Rstudio check WARNING 'qpdf' is needed for checks on size reduction of PDFs but I got the latest versions of R and Rstudio and was able

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN submission with warnings

Dear Kent I think the canonical way to report these is in the space on the submission form, unless I have not correctly grasped what you did. Michael On 26/07/2021 16:02, Kent Johnson wrote: Hi, What is the usual process to submit a new package to CRAN which has false-positive warnings?

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Error concerning rtracklayer

Dear Danielle If you search the most recent postings on this list https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2021q2/subject.html you will see that several of them have rtracklayer in their title. Does any of them help you? Note that if they had used an uninformative title as you do it

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package submission error

Coments in-line On 15/01/2021 14:50, sare ameri wrote: Hi Everyone, I hope this email finds you well. I get errors when submitting my package. I didn't get the error when I submitted the first version of my package. Here is the error: Package name: "ftrCOOL". Error message: Flavor:

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Sweave vignette and bibtex

Dear Jarrod It works for me with Sweave so perhaps we need some more details. Michael On 06/01/2021 11:20, Jarrod Hadfield wrote: Hi, I have a Sweave vignette in a package I have written. When building, the citations are not put into the pdf - perhaps because two passes of the tex file are

Re: [R-pkg-devel] ggplot2 axis title with various size fonts

I think you have found your way onto the wrong list as R-help seems more appropriate. When you do re-post please set your mailer to work in plain text not HTML. Michael On 08/12/2020 09:24, neonira Arinoem wrote: Is it possible to compose a string to be used as axis title in ggplot2, with

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Warning on r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Dear Helmut I think the protocol is to always bump the version number for a re-submission even when the first one did not get onto CRAN. Michael On 25/10/2020 11:02, Helmut Schütz wrote: Hi Hugh, Hugh Parsonage wrote on 2020-10-25 11:45: If you click on WARN in the table on your check

Re: [R-pkg-devel] changing maintainer email address

Dear Josef From the policy Explain any change in the maintainer’s email address and if possible send confirmation from the previous address (by a separate email to cran-submissi...@r-project.org) or explain why it is not possible. Burned into my cortex since I did it incorrectly a few years

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Error in winbuilder

Dear Nicholas Do you in fact have many examples in the package? Perhaps for some mysterious reason they take longer there than when you check at home. Michael On 25/08/2020 14:54, Nicholas Tierney wrote: Hi Everyone, I have an error when submitting to Winbuilder for my R package, naniar

Re: [R-pkg-devel] References in DESCRIPTION file

Dear Alan Without seeing your file it is hard to know but there are many examples on CRAN in the list of packages. It may be something simple like forgetting the full stop. Michael On 25/05/2020 15:38, Cantin, Alan (NRCan/RNCan) wrote: Hi folks, Upon manual inspection of my package by

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Update my package

Dear Francisco It is hard to answer this without more details. If you mean to update a package which you have on CRAN then the CRAN policy document has a short section on re-submission at the very end. If it is a private package not for distribution then you just update the version in the

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Including in my vignette a figure drawn outside R

Thank you Dirk for the last point which has helped my grasp the implications of something in WRE which will help me go forward. Michael On 03/12/2019 16:17, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 3 December 2019 at 15:36, Michael Dewey wrote: | I am planning to include a flow-chart in the vignette

[R-pkg-devel] Including in my vignette a figure drawn outside R

I am planning to include a flow-chart in the vignette of one of my packages (metap). I am planning to draw it using dot from Graphviz. I know that there is Rgraphviz which would do the whole thing in R but I do this sort of thing rarely and I suspect the overhead of learning how to do it in

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Appropriate usage of 'Suggests' -- package installed conditional on other software not found

Dear Charles If your package prints a message to the user suggesting how to get a Latex installation then I do not think you need to do anything else. After all they could install Latex some other way if they pleased or try to work out why the installation they thought they had is not

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problems installing dependences of my package

Dear Andrea Comments in-line On 09/09/2019 15:47, Andrea Vilar Alvarez wrote: Hi, I am writting because I am doing a package in R and I have some problems installing dependences which appear at DESCRIPTION file. First of all, I am not sure about the difference between Depends and Imports,

Re: [R-pkg-devel] General considerations about vignettes

Comments in-line On 30/08/2019 14:59, Iñaki Ucar wrote: On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 15:26, J C Nash wrote: I'm seeking some general advice about including vignettes in my packages, which are largely for nonlinear estimation and function minimization (optimization). This means that my packages

Re: [R-pkg-devel] False Positive WARNING in devtools::check_built

Dear Jarrett Not clear what is going on here but that seems to be an error in your source code not the documentation file as you hint. Michael On 03/05/2019 15:02, Jarrett Phillips wrote: Hello, I have run devtools::check_built() on my package tarball to ensure the presence of no

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Best practice for releasing heavy internal data

Dear Paul The advantage of a data-only supplementary package is that users who live in countries where they have either a very slow connection or where they have to pay per byte to download will be spared 5MB every time you update your main package. I do not think the fact that you never

Re: [R-pkg-devel] package docu

26. januar 2019 14:45 Til: Troels Ring ; 'Michael Dewey' ; 'package-develop' Emne: Re: [R-pkg-devel] package docu On 26/01/2019 8:31 a.m., Troels Ring wrote: Dear Michael - fantastic: TOTAL is now acknowledged -- so I only need the constants kw, K3, and Kc from the utility_acid.r file - how

Re: [R-pkg-devel] package docu

Dear Troels What happens if you add \alias{TOTAL} Michael On 26/01/2019 08:15, Troels Ring wrote: Dear friends - I'm struggling to get the documentation of my package correct. The working package is now (with your help!) at devtools::install_github("troelsring/ABCharge") and in its proto

[R-pkg-devel] Can I put my small data-sets into one .rda file in my CRAN package?

At the moment my package (metap) has a number of small data-sets each as a separate .rda file. It works fine. I thought it would be neater to put them all into one file which I called data.rda (original choice of name there). Now when I do R CMD build metap it fails when trying to build the

Re: [R-pkg-devel] (no subject)

Your documentation files do not match the functions and you have some files R was not expecting. See inline below for more detail On 19/11/2018 10:53, Oloyede Isiaq wrote: I am developing a package in R, but I encountered the below problems, kindly assist. Updating relrisks documentation

Re: [R-pkg-devel] How do I know if/when my package is fit for CRAN?

Comments in-line On 07/06/2018 11:23, Voeten, C.C. wrote: Dear list, I have been working on an R package for the past two years. It started as a programming exercise for me to get acquainted with R, and because I had some issues with lmerTest::step (the aim of my package was to automate the

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package check help: Package required but not available

Dear David I am afraid R does not know what your flag is doing so you should try wrapping the command as you suggested. Michael On 01/03/2018 16:05, David Stanley wrote: Hi Everyone, I’m new to this list but hopefully you can help me. I’m working on updating my apaTables package (most

Re: [R-pkg-devel] referring to a package data object by two names

Dear Greg Do any of the suggestions in section 1.5.3 of Writing R Extensions "Load hooks" work? Michael On 08/10/2017 08:40, Gregory Jefferis wrote: Dear R colleagues, I have a set of versioned data objects in a package. Let's call them landmarks.2016 landmarks.2017 I need to have access

Re: [R-pkg-devel] The Help (e.g. links) is not working for my packages

Your log says you have no examples but you do in your Rd file. Your examples look the wrong way round x(function) rather than function(x) Not sure whether those are relevant issues but perhaps they help. On 10/08/2017 15:47, david.kaeth...@dlr.de wrote: Thank you for the replies! First of

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Errors during R package development

Dear Ranjit Do you in fact have fracdiff.rdb and if so where is it in your file structure? On 12/07/2017 12:00, Ranjit Paul wrote: I am trying to develop one package but getting the following errors and notes. Please suggest for the possible solutions. * checking R code for possible

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Changing a package's name

Dear David It is your package and you can choose the name you prefer. If you feel uncomfortable with the current one then change it. I do not think anyone else's opinion is relevant unless a package author picks a name that all right thinking people would find offensive. On 11/06/2017

Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

Dear all That seems an interesting session. I am the maintainer of one of the CRAN Task Views (MetaAnalysis) and will attend unless I am successful in the draw for Wimbledon tickets. Just in case I strike lucky one question I would have raised from the floor if I were there would have been

[R-pkg-devel] Use of \alias{} versus \concept{}

In my CRAN package metap I implement a number of techniques which have multiple names. So, for instance, what I call sumz is also called sum of normals, and Stouffer's method. I decided it would be kinder if they were documented under all the names I know. Looking at the trusty manual I see

[R-pkg-devel] Is it possible to protect a word from the spell checker?

The spell checker is correct they are not correctly spelled English words but names. I searched the Writing R Extensions manual but did not find any solution. I know it is only a NOTE not more serious. -- Michael http://www.dewey.myzen.co.uk/home.html

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package fails to build on Windows only, builds on GNU/Linux (parse issue)

Duncan Murdoch wrote : > On 02/02/2016 2:23 PM, Irucka Embry wrote: > > https://gitlab.com/iembry/install.load/raw/master/R/install_load.R > is > > the link to raw R code for my package. I have been successful at > > building the package on GNU/Linux, but building on