I am attempting to build a package on r-forge and running into a weird error. I have been in correspondence with the R-forge admins and am turning to r-devel on the remote chance that someone might have a guess as to what is going wrong or a suggestion about further diagnostics/experiments I could try ...
The package seems to build fine on my system(s) with R CMD build --compact-vignettes --resave-data=best pkg (these are the R-forge build arguments, according to the r-forge admins) -- I've tried it with R-devel on Linux-32 and R 2.14.2 on MacOS-64. The build log (basically identical across linux64/win64/macos64) is as follows: -------------- Thu Mar 29 20:15:21 2012: Building tarball for package glmmADMB (SVN revision 204) using R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29) ... * checking for file 'glmmADMB/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'glmmADMB': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files * checking for empty or unneeded directories * looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added * re-saving image files Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'glmmADMB' Execution halted Run time: 0.51 seconds. ---------- so apparently the package is failing because it doesn't exist (!!) I originally thought this was a circular dependency problem, because glmmADMB and coefplot2 (another r-forge package) depended on each other, but I have (at least for now) removed glmmADMB's coefplot2 dependency. As far as I can tell there are *no* packages on r-forge that depend on/suggest/import glmmADMB. a1 <- available.packages(contriburl= contrib.url("http://r-forge.r-project.org")) > rownames(a1)["glmmADMB" %in% a1[,"Suggests"]] character(0) > rownames(a1)["glmmADMB" %in% a1[,"Depends"]] character(0) > rownames(a1)["glmmADMB" %in% a1[,"Imports"]] character(0) The perhaps-relevant parts of the DESCRIPTION file: ========= BuildVignettes: no Description: Fits mixed-effects models using a variety of distributions Imports: stats, nlme Depends: R (>= 2.13), methods, MASS, R2admb Suggests: lattice, lme4, lme4.0, coda, mlmRev, scapeMCMC, ggplot2, bbmle, pscl, knitr, car ===== The only other thing I can think of is backing up a few SVN revisions and seeing whether I can get back to a working version, but I'd like to see if I can get it fixed by moving forward rather than backward ... For anyone who is intrigued and wants to investigate farther: http://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=847 http://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=847 cheers Ben Bolker ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel