Using SUSE Linux, Windows 32 bit and Windows 64 bit R 3.0.2 , I am unable to use R CMD check successfully. Here is the Windows 64 bit report:
Z:\R\source\effects>R CMD check pkg * using log directory 'Z:/R/source/effects/pkg.Rcheck' * using R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) * using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit) * using session charset: ISO8859-1 * checking for file 'pkg/DESCRIPTION' ... ERROR Required fields missing or empty: 'Author' 'Maintainer' The file DESCRIPTION looks like this: Package: effects Version: 2.3-0 Date: 2013/10/22 Title: Effect Displays for Linear, Generalized Linear, Multinomial-Logit, Proportional-Odds Logit Models and Mixed-Effects Models Authors@R: c(person("John", "Fox", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = " j...@mcmaster.ca"), person("Sanford", "Weisberg", role = "aut", email = "sa...@umn.edu"), person("Michael", "Friendly", role = "aut", email = "frien...@yorku.ca "), person("Jangman", "Hong", role = "aut"), person("Robert", "Andersen", role = "ctb"), person("David", "Firth", role = "ctb"), person("Steve", "Taylor", role = "ctb")) Depends: lattice, grid, colorspace Suggests: nlme, lme4, MASS, nnet, poLCA, heplots LazyLoad: yes LazyData: yes Description: Graphical and tabular effect displays, e.g., of interactions, for linear generalized linear, multinomial-logit, proportional-odds logit models, mixed-effect models, polytomous latent-class models and multivariate linear models. License: GPL (>= 2) URL: http://www.r-project.org, http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ The 'Author' and 'Maintainer' fields should be automatically generated. With version 3.0.1, I had no such problem, and my coauthors who use Eciplse and R-studio have no problems with R 3.0.2. John Fox suggested the following: When R CMD build creates a package tarball it writes the information from Authors@R into the Author and Maintainer fields. I think that Sandy's problem is produced by checking the package source directory rather than a package source tarball. I use RStudio to check packages, and it automatically builds the tarball first, which is the recommended procedure. R-Forge does that too. Michael uses Eclipse, and if I remember right, it too creates a tarball (but I haven't used it in quite some time). Is this a bug in R CMD check? -- Sanford Weisberg, sa...@umn.edu <sa...@umn.edu> For undergraduate matters: underg...@stat.umn.edu University of Minnesota, School of Statistics 312 Ford Hall, 224 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-625-8355, FAX 612-624-8868 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel