Thank you for the replies! First of all, here is the test package: https://github.com/c06n/helpers2
Session info and the log of R CMD check at the end. There is an error: "LaTeX errors when creating PDF version." However, it says "checking Rd files ... OK". I have tried the install now on 4 different computers (via devtools::install_github), they all did not work. Further points: - Unfortunately, installation from a tarball did not work either. I build the tarball from the command line (Cygwin), then used R CMD, but tried it also from within RStudio ("Build Source Package", then "install.packages") - I have managed to create another package WHICH WORKS. I have not been able to do it again though, I just don't know what I did differently. - I played around with the documentation lines in the test package, to no avail. I am sure that it is something very minor where I went wrong, and in all likelihood the problem is on my side. I just cannot figure out what it might be. David ----- > sessionInfo() R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 Matrix products: default locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252 LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] _0.1.0 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.4.1 tools_3.4.1 -------- * using log directory '/cygdrive/d/Home/projects/R_package_dev/helpers2.Rcheck' * using R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21) * using platform: x86_64-unknown-cygwin (64-bit) * using session charset: ISO8859-1 * checking for file 'helpers2/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * checking extension type ... Package * this is package 'helpers2' version '0.1.0' * package encoding: UTF-8 * checking package namespace information ... OK * checking package dependencies ... OK * checking if this is a source package ... OK * checking if there is a namespace ... OK * checking for executable files ... OK * checking for hidden files and directories ... OK * checking for portable file names ... OK * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK * checking whether package 'helpers2' can be installed ... OK * checking installed package size ... OK * checking package directory ... OK * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... WARNING Non-standard license specification: testlicense Standardizable: FALSE * checking top-level files ... OK * checking for left-over files ... OK * checking index information ... OK * checking package subdirectories ... OK * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK * checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK * checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK * checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK * checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK * checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK * checking loading without being on the library search path ... OK * checking dependencies in R code ... OK * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK * checking replacement functions ... OK * checking foreign function calls ... OK * checking R code for possible problems ... OK * checking Rd files ... OK * checking Rd metadata ... OK * checking Rd cross-references ... OK * checking for missing documentation entries ... OK * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK * checking Rd contents ... OK * checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... OK * checking examples ... NONE * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. This typically indicates Rd problems. * checking PDF version of manual without hyperrefs or index ... ERROR * DONE Status: 1 ERROR, 2 WARNINGs -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:dirk.eddelbuet...@gmail.com] Im Auftrag von Dirk Eddelbuettel Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. August 2017 14:32 An: Duncan Murdoch Cc: Käthner, David; r-package-devel@r-project.org Betreff: Re: [R-pkg-devel] The Help (e.g. links) is not working for my packages On 9 August 2017 at 08:38, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | Nothing that you've written is reproducible by others. See if you can | put together a short self-contained series of instructions that | display the problems (or just one of them). It might involve | installing from Github, or making a package tarball available somewhere. I am fairly certain I have observed this myself, and I *think* it simply stems from running R CMD INSTALL (and alike) from a source directory, as opposed to a tarball. I filed it under minor nuisance and didn't care too much either as the official two-step of 'R CMD build ...; R CMD INSTALL ...' is just that: the official and recommended way. With which things work. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel