I installed pkgKitten and it passed the check. Thank you very much. On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 2:35 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi Bill, > > On 13 October 2018 at 11:13, William Dunlap wrote: > | But do replace pkgKitten's boilerplate before submitting the package to > | CRAN, lest CRAN people decide to insist on meaningful content. > | > | ./RApiDatetime/man/RApiDatetime-package.Rd: This section should provide > a > | more detailed overview of how to use the > | ./SimplifyStats/man/SimplifyStats-package.Rd: This section should > provide > | a more detailed overview of how to use the > | ./googlePolylines/man/sfencode-package.Rd: This section should provide a > | more detailed overview of how to use the > | ./multistateutils/man/des-package.Rd: This section should provide a more > | detailed overview of how to use the > | ./mrbsizeR/man/mrbsizer-package.Rd: This section should provide a more > | detailed overview of how to use the > | ./xtensor/man/xtensor-package.Rd: This section should provide a more > | detailed overview of how to use the > > Fair point that you raise here. I hope you don't mind if I reply: > > 1. Pointing users to a helper tool which produces non-working output is > counter-productive and a slap in their face. I tried many times to > convince > Duncan Murdoch (who, while an R Core member, would at least at times listen > to proles like myself). I failed, and all I could do is write pkgKitten. > But this is, as the saying goes, "a hill I willing to die on". What R does > here is wrong. > > 2. Your critique is valid, but I have neither carrot nor stick to push on. > In > my mind R CMD check could (and should !!) check for this > not-replaced-stanza > text. But you know how it goes about changes in CRAN / R Core. > > 3. You list several packages. One is mine. It should not even exists if R > Core was not so paranoid about about their API. Another is one I helped > with > so guilty as charged. > > 4. You list six packages. Rights now Rcpp has 1460 reverse dependencies. I > take six out of 1460 (surely upward biased as not all use package creators) > if it means the first point above is taken care of. > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org >
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