Dear Kevin
Just had the same "problem", that is, placed the NEWS.Rd in
the package inst/ directory, and the news() function did not
find the information. The help page for news() is, however,
pretty clear:
"..., if the given add-on package can be found
in the given libraries, it is attempted to read its news in
structured form from files 'inst/NEWS.Rd', 'NEWS' or 'inst/NEWS'
(in that order)."
Hence, installing NEWS.Rd in an inst/ directory works fine.
I have no idea if an installed package should or shouldn't have
an inst/ subdirectory, but from the help page the functionality
seems intentional to me.
- Niels
On 06/01/11 12.35, Kevin Wright wrote:
Andy, thanks for providing a clear way of saying it. I thought I was
clear in the first place, but oh well).
Here is the structure of my source files:
hwpkg/DESCRIPTION
hwpkg/R/hw.R
hwpkg/inst/NEWS.Rd
I'm using Windows XP. When I install this package, I do this:
Rcmd INSTALL hwpkg
Which results in
ls c:/r/r-2.12.0/library/hwpkg/
-rwxr-x---+ 1 wrightkevi 355 Jan 6 14:19 DESCRIPTION
drwxrwx---+ 2 wrightkevi 0 Jan 6 14:19 Meta
-rwxr-x---+ 1 wrightkevi 18 Jan 6 14:19 NEWS.Rd
drwxrwx---+ 2 wrightkevi 0 Jan 6 14:19 R
drwxrwx---+ 2 wrightkevi 0 Jan 6 14:19 help
drwxrwx---+ 2 wrightkevi 0 Jan 6 14:19 html
As you see, there is no "inst/NEWS.Rd" file (NEWS.Rd has been moved UP
a level), and so news(package="hwpkg") returns nothing.
If I build the package into a zipfile and then
install.packages(zipfile), the same problem occurs.
Kevin
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Liaw, Andy<andy_l...@merck.com> wrote:
I was communicating with Kevin off-list.
The problem seems to be run time, not install time. News() calls
tools:::.build_news_db(), and the 2nd line of that function is:
nfile<- file.path(dir, "inst", "NEWS.Rd")
and that's the problem: an installed package shouldn't have an inst/
subdirectory, right?
Andy
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On 06/01/2011 2:19 PM, Kevin Wright wrote:
Yes, exactly. But the problem is with NEWS.Rd, not NEWS.
I'm not sure who you are arguing with, but if you do file a
bug report,
please also put together a simple reproducible example, e.g. a small
package containing NEWS.Rd in the inst directory (which is where the
docs say it should go) and code that shows why this is bad.
Don't just
talk about internal functions used for building packages; as
far as we
can tell so far tools:::.build_news_db is doing exactly what
it should
be doing.
Duncan Murdoch
pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd is moved to pkg/NEWS.Rd at build time, but for
installed packages, "news" tried to load "pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd".
I'm going to file a bug report.
Kevin
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Kevin
Wright<kw.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
If you look at tools:::.build_news_db, the plain text
NEWS file is
searched for in pkg/NEWS and pkg/inst/NEWS, but NEWS.Rd in only
searched for in pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd.
Looks like a bug to me.
I *think*.
Thanks,
Kevin
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Kevin
Wright<kw.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hopefully a quick question. My package has a NEWS.Rd
file that is not
being found by "news".
The "news" function calls "tools:::.build_news_db"
which has this line:
nfile<- file.path(dir, "inst", "NEWS.Rd")
So it appears that the "news" function is searching for
"mypackage/inst/NEWS.Rd".
However, "Writing R extensions" says "The contents of the inst
subdirectory will be copied recursively to the
installation directory"
During the installation, mypackage/inst/NEWS.Rd is
copied into the
"mypackage" directory, not "mypackage/inst".
What am I doing wrong, or is this a bug?
Kevin Wright
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