Ivan, thank you for the tips; they allowed me to move on to the next problems. By building the tar file first and checking it later, and fixing several other problems I got R CMD check to work. It does *not* delete inst/doc. It also does not run boostrap.R, as far as I can tell, presumably because only devtools does.
Check within RStudio continues to delete inst/doc, so this behavior is probably coming from RStudio, devtools, or one the packages it invokes. The devtools::check() documentation mentions it invoke pkgbuild::build() and rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck(). Since I'm guessing my command line build and check invoked those last 2, or at least operated similarly, they seem less likely suspects. As I think I already mentioned, bootstrap.R when run outside of a check, but inside RStudio, also does not delete inst/doc. Anyway, there a lot of moving parts. Does anybody have any ideas? Deleting the directory just seems weird and so it's hard to know where to look. Thanks. Ross -----Original Message----- From: Ivan Krylov <ikry...@disroot.org> Sent: Friday, May 3, 2024 12:52 PM To: Boylan, Ross via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Boylan, Ross <ross.boy...@ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [R] R CMD check vs RStudio check В Fri, 3 May 2024 19:45:08 +0000 "Boylan, Ross via R-help" <r-help@r-project.org> пишет: > & $R CMD check . > * checking for file './DESCRIPTION' ... ERROR Required fields missing > or empty: > 'Author' 'Maintainer' You're checking a source package directory. This could work, but it's much easier and more reliable to (1) build a source tarball using R CMD build and (2) check the tarball. This is probably part of what devtools::check() does. (It can also do a lot of other things pre-R CMD build.) The reason checking the source directory is failing is because it's R CMD build that creates the necessary 'Author' and 'Maintainer' fields from Authors@R in your DESCRIPTION. > P.S. What's with the "..Rcheck" log directory, which appears literally > with the 2 dots? Is this just MS-Windows getting confused and not > interpreting .. as the parent directory? "..Rcheck" is built from the argument of R CMD check . followed by ".Rcheck". -- Best regards, Ivan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
