Hello all, I am experiencing some issues with building a package that we are hosting on GitHub. The package itself is quite large. It is a data package with a bunch of spatial files stored as .rds files.
The repo is located here: https://github.com/bcgov/bcmaps.rdata If we clone that package to local machine via: git clone https://github.com/bcgov/bcmaps.rdata The first oddity is that the package installs successfully using this: $ R CMD INSTALL "./bcmaps.rdata" But fails when I try to build the package: $ R CMD BUILD "./bcmaps.rdata" * checking for file './bcmaps.rdata/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'bcmaps.rdata': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts * checking for empty or unneeded directories * looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added Warning in gzfile(file, "rb") : cannot open compressed file 'bcmaps.rdata', probable reason 'Permission denied' Error in gzfile(file, "rb") : cannot open the connection Execution halted The second oddity is that if I remove the . from the Package name in the DESCRIPTION file, the build proceeds smoothly: $ R CMD build "./bcmaps.rdata" * checking for file './bcmaps.rdata/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'bcmapsrdata': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts * checking for empty or unneeded directories * looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added * building 'bcmapsrdata_0.2.0.tar.gz' I am assuming that R CMD install builds the package internally so I find it confusing that I am not able to build it myself. Similarly confusing is the lack of a . in the package name indicative of anything? Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Am I missing something obvious? Thanks in advance, Sam ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel