Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-29 Thread Eggleston, Barry
OK,

I submitted the package via the webform with "rth" as a role for Diane.  It 
failed the automatic testing for two notes and was archived within a few 
minutes.  One note indicated the package was a new submission, while the other 
was related to my use of "rth".  I responded to all and referred to this 
discussion on R-package-devel.  The actual notes received were:

Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64
Check: CRAN incoming feasibility, Result: NOTE
  Maintainer: 'Barry Eggleston '
  
  New submission

Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64
Check: DESCRIPTION meta-information, Result: NOTE


Thanks,
Barry
  

-Original Message-
From: Martin Maechler  
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 11:40 AM
To: Eggleston, Barry 
Cc: Roman Flury ; r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

>>>>> Eggleston, Barry 
>>>>> on Wed, 25 Jul 2018 21:53:30 + writes:

> This is great news Roman.
> The "rth" role stands for "Research team head", and I got it from the 
http://www.loc.gov/marc//relators/relaterm.html website.

and it *IS*  a correct role also in R,  using non-API function
(non-API: do *not* use it in reproducible code, pkgs, etc !) :

  > utils:::.canonicalize_person_role("rth")
  [1] "rth"

tells us that this is a correct role,
whereas these are not :

> utils:::.canonicalize_person_role("Rth")
character(0)
Warning message:
In utils:::.canonicalize_person_role("Rth") :
  Invalid role specification: ‘Rth’.
> utils:::.canonicalize_person_role("Foobar")
character(0)
Warning message:
In utils:::.canonicalize_person_role("Foobar") :
  Invalid role specification: ‘Foobar’.
> 

So the bug is really in the Windows version of R that was
running for you when you've used devtools::build_win()   or in
build_win()  itself.

"rth" is a correct role and you should *NOT* replace it by something less 
appropriate ...

Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich and R Core Team


> This issue here is Diane Catellier provided the funds and management for 
us to develop this package.  I did not know about the person() function.  When 
I looked at the help page for person(), I see that I can use "fnd" for funder 
and that will define Diane's role sufficiently well.  I'll make the change and 
run through my checks again.

> Thank you,
> Barry

    > -----Original Message-----
> From: Roman Flury  
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 5:27 PM
> To: Eggleston, Barry 
> Cc: Hugh Parsonage ; 
r-package-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

> Barry,

> sorry did not anticipate the behaving of the emailer. I could reproduce 
your error with the DESCRIPTION file below with a helloworld pkg

> Package: test
> Type: Package
> Title: What the Package Does (Title Case)
> Version: 0.1.0
> Authors@R: c(person("Roman", "Flury", email = "roman.fl...@math.uzh.ch", 
role = c("aut", "cre")),
>  person("Test", "person", email = "testm...@test.org", role = 
c("fnd", "rth")))
> Description: Short description to describe this package.
> Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
> License: GPL-3
> Encoding: UTF-8
> LazyData: true
> Imports: eha (>= 2.5.1),
>     ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
>     survival (>= 2.41-3),
>     reshape2 (>= 1.4.3),
>     stats (>= 3.5.0)
> RoxygenNote: 6.0.1

> this passes R CMD check --as-cran on a unix system, but not on windwos. 
> The problem seems to be the role "rth", which is also not listed in 
?person. What does this role stand for?

> best, Roman

> On 25.07.2018 16:21, Eggleston, Barry wrote:
>> Roman,
>> 
>> Not sure why my emailer added all those <mailto:a...@bbb.ccc> items, but 
none of them are in my original DESCRIPTION file.  So my Maintainer line, for 
example, simply reads Barry Eggleston , where email address is 
simply beggles...@rti.org.
>> 
>> Thanks for the observation,
>> Barry
>> 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Roman Flury 
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 9:42 AM
>> To: Eggleston, Barry 
>> Cc: Hugh Parsonage ; 
>> r-package-devel@r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-26 Thread Martin Maechler
>>>>> Eggleston, Barry 
>>>>> on Wed, 25 Jul 2018 21:53:30 + writes:

> This is great news Roman.
> The "rth" role stands for "Research team head", and I got it from the 
http://www.loc.gov/marc//relators/relaterm.html website.

and it *IS*  a correct role also in R,  using non-API function
(non-API: do *not* use it in reproducible code, pkgs, etc !) :

  > utils:::.canonicalize_person_role("rth")
  [1] "rth"

tells us that this is a correct role,
whereas these are not :

> utils:::.canonicalize_person_role("Rth")
character(0)
Warning message:
In utils:::.canonicalize_person_role("Rth") :
  Invalid role specification: ‘Rth’.
> utils:::.canonicalize_person_role("Foobar")
character(0)
Warning message:
In utils:::.canonicalize_person_role("Foobar") :
  Invalid role specification: ‘Foobar’.
> 

So the bug is really in the Windows version of R that was
running for you when you've used devtools::build_win()   or in
build_win()  itself.

"rth" is a correct role and you should *NOT* replace it by
something less appropriate ...

Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich and R Core Team


> This issue here is Diane Catellier provided the funds and management for 
us to develop this package.  I did not know about the person() function.  When 
I looked at the help page for person(), I see that I can use "fnd" for funder 
and that will define Diane's role sufficiently well.  I'll make the change and 
run through my checks again.

> Thank you,
> Barry

> -Original Message-
    > From: Roman Flury  
    > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 5:27 PM
    > To: Eggleston, Barry 
> Cc: Hugh Parsonage ; 
r-package-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

> Barry,

> sorry did not anticipate the behaving of the emailer. I could reproduce 
your error with the DESCRIPTION file below with a helloworld pkg

> Package: test
> Type: Package
> Title: What the Package Does (Title Case)
> Version: 0.1.0
> Authors@R: c(person("Roman", "Flury", email = "roman.fl...@math.uzh.ch", 
role = c("aut", "cre")),
>  person("Test", "person", email = "testm...@test.org", role = 
c("fnd", "rth")))
> Description: Short description to describe this package.
> Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
> License: GPL-3
> Encoding: UTF-8
> LazyData: true
> Imports: eha (>= 2.5.1),
>     ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
>     survival (>= 2.41-3),
>     reshape2 (>= 1.4.3),
>     stats (>= 3.5.0)
> RoxygenNote: 6.0.1

> this passes R CMD check --as-cran on a unix system, but not on windwos. 
> The problem seems to be the role "rth", which is also not listed in 
?person. What does this role stand for?

> best, Roman

> On 25.07.2018 16:21, Eggleston, Barry wrote:
>> Roman,
>> 
>> Not sure why my emailer added all those <mailto:a...@bbb.ccc> items, but 
none of them are in my original DESCRIPTION file.  So my Maintainer line, for 
example, simply reads Barry Eggleston , where email address is 
simply beggles...@rti.org.
>> 
>> Thanks for the observation,
>> Barry
>> 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Roman Flury 
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 9:42 AM
>> To: Eggleston, Barry 
>> Cc: Hugh Parsonage ; 
>> r-package-devel@r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
>> meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> after https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html the 
‘Maintainer’ field should give a single name followed by a valid (RFC 2822) 
email address in angle brackets.
>> but beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org> is not a valid RFC 
>> 2822 email address, you could check this for instance with 
>> https://proxy2.de/email-validation.php
>> 
>> you could omit the 'Maintainer' field, since a suitable ‘Authors@R’ 
field is given..
>> does this solve your problem?
>> 
>> best, Roman
>> 
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "Eggleston, Barry" 
>> To: "Hugh Parsonage" 
>> Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 3:00:35 PM
>> Subject: 

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-25 Thread Eggleston, Barry
This is great news Roman.

The "rth" role stands for "Research team head", and I got it from the 
http://www.loc.gov/marc//relators/relaterm.html website.

This issue here is Diane Catellier provided the funds and management for us to 
develop this package.  I did not know about the person() function.  When I 
looked at the help page for person(), I see that I can use "fnd" for funder and 
that will define Diane's role sufficiently well.  I'll make the change and run 
through my checks again.

Thank you,
Barry

-Original Message-
From: Roman Flury  
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 5:27 PM
To: Eggleston, Barry 
Cc: Hugh Parsonage ; r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

Barry,

sorry did not anticipate the behaving of the emailer. I could reproduce your 
error with the DESCRIPTION file below with a helloworld pkg

Package: test
Type: Package
Title: What the Package Does (Title Case)
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: c(person("Roman", "Flury", email = "roman.fl...@math.uzh.ch", role = 
c("aut", "cre")),
  person("Test", "person", email = "testm...@test.org", role = 
c("fnd", "rth")))
Description: Short description to describe this package.
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports: eha (>= 2.5.1),
     ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
     survival (>= 2.41-3),
     reshape2 (>= 1.4.3),
     stats (>= 3.5.0)
RoxygenNote: 6.0.1

this passes R CMD check --as-cran on a unix system, but not on windwos. 
The problem seems to be the role "rth", which is also not listed in ?person. 
What does this role stand for?

best, Roman

On 25.07.2018 16:21, Eggleston, Barry wrote:
> Roman,
>
> Not sure why my emailer added all those <mailto:a...@bbb.ccc> items, but none 
> of them are in my original DESCRIPTION file.  So my Maintainer line, for 
> example, simply reads Barry Eggleston , where email address is 
> simply beggles...@rti.org.
>
> Thanks for the observation,
> Barry
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Roman Flury 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 9:42 AM
> To: Eggleston, Barry 
> Cc: Hugh Parsonage ; 
> r-package-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
> meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()
>
> Hello,
>
> after https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html the 
> ‘Maintainer’ field should give a single name followed by a valid (RFC 2822) 
> email address in angle brackets.
> but beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org> is not a valid RFC 
> 2822 email address, you could check this for instance with 
> https://proxy2.de/email-validation.php
>
> you could omit the 'Maintainer' field, since a suitable ‘Authors@R’ field is 
> given..
> does this solve your problem?
>
> best, Roman
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Eggleston, Barry" 
> To: "Hugh Parsonage" 
> Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 3:00:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
> meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()
>
> Below is a copy of my DESCRIPTION file:
>
> Package: BayesCTDesign
> Type: Package
> Title: Two Arm Bayesian Clinical Trial Design with and Without 
> Historical Control Data
> Version: 1.0.0
> Authors@R: c(
>  person("Barry", "Eggleston", email = 
> "beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org>", role = c("cre", "aut")),
> person("Doug", "Wilson", email = 
> "doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com<mailto:doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com>", role = 
> c("aut")),
> person("Becky", "McNeil", email = 
> "rmcn...@rti.org<mailto:rmcn...@rti.org>", role = c("aut")),
>  person("Joseph", "Ibrahim", email = 
> "jibra...@email.unc.edu<mailto:jibra...@email.unc.edu>", role = c("aut")),
> person("Diane", "Catellier", email = 
> "dcatell...@rti.org<mailto:dcatell...@rti.org>", role = c("fnd", 
> "rth")))
> Maintainer: Barry Eggleston 
> mailto:beggles...@rti.org>>
> Description: A set of functions to help clinical trial researchers calculate 
> power and sample size for two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical trials that do 
> or do not incorporate historical control data.  At some point during the 
> de

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-25 Thread Roman Flury

Barry,

sorry did not anticipate the behaving of the emailer. I could reproduce 
your error with the DESCRIPTION file below with a helloworld pkg


Package: test
Type: Package
Title: What the Package Does (Title Case)
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: c(person("Roman", "Flury", email = "roman.fl...@math.uzh.ch", 
role = c("aut", "cre")),
 person("Test", "person", email = "testm...@test.org", role 
= c("fnd", "rth")))

Description: Short description to describe this package.
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports: eha (>= 2.5.1),
    ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
    survival (>= 2.41-3),
    reshape2 (>= 1.4.3),
    stats (>= 3.5.0)
RoxygenNote: 6.0.1

this passes R CMD check --as-cran on a unix system, but not on windwos. 
The problem seems to be the role "rth", which is also not listed in 
?person. What does this role stand for?


best, Roman

On 25.07.2018 16:21, Eggleston, Barry wrote:

Roman,

Not sure why my emailer added all those <mailto:a...@bbb.ccc> items, but none of them 
are in my original DESCRIPTION file.  So my Maintainer line, for example, simply reads 
Barry Eggleston , where email address is simply beggles...@rti.org.

Thanks for the observation,
Barry


-Original Message-
From: Roman Flury 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 9:42 AM
To: Eggleston, Barry 
Cc: Hugh Parsonage ; r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

Hello,

after https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html the 
‘Maintainer’ field should give a single name followed by a valid (RFC 2822) 
email address in angle brackets.
but beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org> is not a valid RFC 2822 email 
address, you could check this for instance with https://proxy2.de/email-validation.php

you could omit the 'Maintainer' field, since a suitable ‘Authors@R’ field is 
given..
does this solve your problem?

best, Roman

- Original Message -----
From: "Eggleston, Barry" 
To: "Hugh Parsonage" 
Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 3:00:35 PM
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

Below is a copy of my DESCRIPTION file:

Package: BayesCTDesign
Type: Package
Title: Two Arm Bayesian Clinical Trial Design with and Without Historical 
Control Data
Version: 1.0.0
Authors@R: c(
 person("Barry", "Eggleston", email = "beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org>", role = 
c("cre", "aut")),
person("Doug", "Wilson", email = 
"doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com<mailto:doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com>", role = c("aut")),
person("Becky", "McNeil", email = 
"rmcn...@rti.org<mailto:rmcn...@rti.org>", role = c("aut")),
 person("Joseph", "Ibrahim", email = 
"jibra...@email.unc.edu<mailto:jibra...@email.unc.edu>", role = c("aut")),
person("Diane", "Catellier", email = 
"dcatell...@rti.org<mailto:dcatell...@rti.org>", role = c("fnd", "rth")))
Maintainer: Barry Eggleston mailto:beggles...@rti.org>>
Description: A set of functions to help clinical trial researchers calculate 
power and sample size for two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical trials that do 
or do not incorporate historical control data.  At some point during the design 
process, a clinical trial researcher who is designing a basic two-arm Bayesian 
randomized clinical trial needs to make decisions about power and sample size 
within the context of hypothesized treatment effects.  Through simulation, the 
\code{simple_sim()} function will estimate power and other user specified 
clinical trial characteristics at user specified sample sizes given user 
defined scenarios about treatment effect,control group characteristics, and 
outcome.  If the clinical trial researcher has access to historical control 
data, then the researcher can design a two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical 
trial that incorporates the historical data.  In such a case, the researcher 
needs to work through the potential consequences of historical and randomiz  ed 
control differences on trial characteristics, in addition to working through 
issues regarding power in the context of sample size, treatment effect size, 
and outcome.  If a researcher designs a clinical trial that will incorporate 
historical control data, the researcher needs the randomized controls to be 
from the same population as the historical controls.  What if this is not the 
case when the 

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-25 Thread Eggleston, Barry
Roman,

Not sure why my emailer added all those <mailto:a...@bbb.ccc> items, but none 
of them are in my original DESCRIPTION file.  So my Maintainer line, for 
example, simply reads Barry Eggleston , where email address is 
simply beggles...@rti.org.

Thanks for the observation,
Barry


-Original Message-
From: Roman Flury  
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 9:42 AM
To: Eggleston, Barry 
Cc: Hugh Parsonage ; r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

Hello,

after https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html the 
‘Maintainer’ field should give a single name followed by a valid (RFC 2822) 
email address in angle brackets.
but beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org> is not a valid RFC 2822 email 
address, you could check this for instance with 
https://proxy2.de/email-validation.php

you could omit the 'Maintainer' field, since a suitable ‘Authors@R’ field is 
given..
does this solve your problem?

best, Roman

- Original Message -
From: "Eggleston, Barry" 
To: "Hugh Parsonage" 
Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 3:00:35 PM
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

Below is a copy of my DESCRIPTION file:

Package: BayesCTDesign
Type: Package
Title: Two Arm Bayesian Clinical Trial Design with and Without Historical 
Control Data
Version: 1.0.0
Authors@R: c(
person("Barry", "Eggleston", email = 
"beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org>", role = c("cre", "aut")),
   person("Doug", "Wilson", email = 
"doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com<mailto:doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com>", role = c("aut")),
   person("Becky", "McNeil", email = 
"rmcn...@rti.org<mailto:rmcn...@rti.org>", role = c("aut")),
person("Joseph", "Ibrahim", email = 
"jibra...@email.unc.edu<mailto:jibra...@email.unc.edu>", role = c("aut")),
   person("Diane", "Catellier", email = 
"dcatell...@rti.org<mailto:dcatell...@rti.org>", role = c("fnd", "rth")))
Maintainer: Barry Eggleston mailto:beggles...@rti.org>>
Description: A set of functions to help clinical trial researchers calculate 
power and sample size for two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical trials that do 
or do not incorporate historical control data.  At some point during the design 
process, a clinical trial researcher who is designing a basic two-arm Bayesian 
randomized clinical trial needs to make decisions about power and sample size 
within the context of hypothesized treatment effects.  Through simulation, the 
\code{simple_sim()} function will estimate power and other user specified 
clinical trial characteristics at user specified sample sizes given user 
defined scenarios about treatment effect,control group characteristics, and 
outcome.  If the clinical trial researcher has access to historical control 
data, then the researcher can design a two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical 
trial that incorporates the historical data.  In such a case, the researcher 
needs to work through the potential consequences of historical and randomiz  ed 
control differences on trial characteristics, in addition to working through 
issues regarding power in the context of sample size, treatment effect size, 
and outcome.  If a researcher designs a clinical trial that will incorporate 
historical control data, the researcher needs the randomized controls to be 
from the same population as the historical controls.  What if this is not the 
case when the designed trial is implemented?  During the design phase, the 
researcher needs to investigate the negative effects of possible 
historic/randomized control differences on power, type one error, and other 
trial characteristics.  Using this information, the researcher should design 
the trial to mitigate these negative effects.  Through simulation, the 
\code{historic_sim()} function will estimate power and other user specified 
clinical trial characteristics at user specified sample sizes given user 
defined scenarios about historical and randomized control differences as well 
as treatment effec  ts and outcomes.  The results from \code{historic_sim()} 
and \code{simple_sim()} can be printed with \code{print_table()} and graphed 
with \code{plot_table()} methods.  Outcomes considered are Gaussian, Poisson, 
Bernoulli, Lognormal, Weibull, and Piecewise Exponential.
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports: eha (>= 2.5.1),
ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
    survival (>= 2.41-3),
reshape2 (>= 1.4.3),

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-25 Thread Roman Flury
Hello,

after https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html the 
‘Maintainer’ field should give a single name followed by a valid (RFC 2822) 
email address in angle brackets.
but beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org> is not a valid RFC 2822 email 
address, you could check this for instance with 
https://proxy2.de/email-validation.php

you could omit the 'Maintainer' field, since a suitable ‘Authors@R’ field is 
given..
does this solve your problem?

best, Roman

- Original Message -
From: "Eggleston, Barry" 
To: "Hugh Parsonage" 
Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 3:00:35 PM
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

Below is a copy of my DESCRIPTION file:

Package: BayesCTDesign
Type: Package
Title: Two Arm Bayesian Clinical Trial Design with and Without Historical 
Control Data
Version: 1.0.0
Authors@R: c(
person("Barry", "Eggleston", email = 
"beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org>", role = c("cre", "aut")),
   person("Doug", "Wilson", email = 
"doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com<mailto:doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com>", role = c("aut")),
   person("Becky", "McNeil", email = 
"rmcn...@rti.org<mailto:rmcn...@rti.org>", role = c("aut")),
person("Joseph", "Ibrahim", email = 
"jibra...@email.unc.edu<mailto:jibra...@email.unc.edu>", role = c("aut")),
   person("Diane", "Catellier", email = 
"dcatell...@rti.org<mailto:dcatell...@rti.org>", role = c("fnd", "rth")))
Maintainer: Barry Eggleston mailto:beggles...@rti.org>>
Description: A set of functions to help clinical trial researchers calculate 
power and sample size for two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical trials that do 
or do not incorporate historical control data.  At some point during the design 
process, a clinical trial researcher who is designing a basic two-arm Bayesian 
randomized clinical trial needs to make decisions about power and sample size 
within the context of hypothesized treatment effects.  Through simulation, the 
\code{simple_sim()} function will estimate power and other user specified 
clinical trial characteristics at user specified sample sizes given user 
defined scenarios about treatment effect,control group characteristics, and 
outcome.  If the clinical trial researcher has access to historical control 
data, then the researcher can design a two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical 
trial that incorporates the historical data.  In such a case, the researcher 
needs to work through the potential consequences of historical and randomiz
 ed control differences on trial characteristics, in addition to working 
through issues regarding power in the context of sample size, treatment effect 
size, and outcome.  If a researcher designs a clinical trial that will 
incorporate historical control data, the researcher needs the randomized 
controls to be from the same population as the historical controls.  What if 
this is not the case when the designed trial is implemented?  During the design 
phase, the researcher needs to investigate the negative effects of possible 
historic/randomized control differences on power, type one error, and other 
trial characteristics.  Using this information, the researcher should design 
the trial to mitigate these negative effects.  Through simulation, the 
\code{historic_sim()} function will estimate power and other user specified 
clinical trial characteristics at user specified sample sizes given user 
defined scenarios about historical and randomized control differences as well 
as treatment effec
 ts and outcomes.  The results from \code{historic_sim()} and 
\code{simple_sim()} can be printed with \code{print_table()} and graphed with 
\code{plot_table()} methods.  Outcomes considered are Gaussian, Poisson, 
Bernoulli, Lognormal, Weibull, and Piecewise Exponential.
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports: eha (>= 2.5.1),
ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
    survival (>= 2.41-3),
reshape2 (>= 1.4.3),
   stats (>= 3.5.0)
RoxygenNote: 6.0.1


From: Hugh Parsonage 
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 10:12 PM
To: Eggleston, Barry 
Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

Thank you. Could you provide the contents of DESCRIPTION too? That might 
provide the richest clue. If you have a link to an online copy of the package 
that could be helpful too.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 12:01 Eggleston, Barry 
mailto:beggles...@rti.org>> wrote:
I am working through

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-25 Thread Eggleston, Barry
Below is a copy of my DESCRIPTION file:

Package: BayesCTDesign
Type: Package
Title: Two Arm Bayesian Clinical Trial Design with and Without Historical 
Control Data
Version: 1.0.0
Authors@R: c(
person("Barry", "Eggleston", email = 
"beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org>", role = c("cre", "aut")),
   person("Doug", "Wilson", email = 
"doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com<mailto:doug.roy.wil...@gmail.com>", role = c("aut")),
   person("Becky", "McNeil", email = 
"rmcn...@rti.org<mailto:rmcn...@rti.org>", role = c("aut")),
person("Joseph", "Ibrahim", email = 
"jibra...@email.unc.edu<mailto:jibra...@email.unc.edu>", role = c("aut")),
   person("Diane", "Catellier", email = 
"dcatell...@rti.org<mailto:dcatell...@rti.org>", role = c("fnd", "rth")))
Maintainer: Barry Eggleston mailto:beggles...@rti.org>>
Description: A set of functions to help clinical trial researchers calculate 
power and sample size for two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical trials that do 
or do not incorporate historical control data.  At some point during the design 
process, a clinical trial researcher who is designing a basic two-arm Bayesian 
randomized clinical trial needs to make decisions about power and sample size 
within the context of hypothesized treatment effects.  Through simulation, the 
\code{simple_sim()} function will estimate power and other user specified 
clinical trial characteristics at user specified sample sizes given user 
defined scenarios about treatment effect,control group characteristics, and 
outcome.  If the clinical trial researcher has access to historical control 
data, then the researcher can design a two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical 
trial that incorporates the historical data.  In such a case, the researcher 
needs to work through the potential consequences of historical and randomiz
 ed control differences on trial characteristics, in addition to working 
through issues regarding power in the context of sample size, treatment effect 
size, and outcome.  If a researcher designs a clinical trial that will 
incorporate historical control data, the researcher needs the randomized 
controls to be from the same population as the historical controls.  What if 
this is not the case when the designed trial is implemented?  During the design 
phase, the researcher needs to investigate the negative effects of possible 
historic/randomized control differences on power, type one error, and other 
trial characteristics.  Using this information, the researcher should design 
the trial to mitigate these negative effects.  Through simulation, the 
\code{historic_sim()} function will estimate power and other user specified 
clinical trial characteristics at user specified sample sizes given user 
defined scenarios about historical and randomized control differences as well 
as treatment effec
 ts and outcomes.  The results from \code{historic_sim()} and 
\code{simple_sim()} can be printed with \code{print_table()} and graphed with 
\code{plot_table()} methods.  Outcomes considered are Gaussian, Poisson, 
Bernoulli, Lognormal, Weibull, and Piecewise Exponential.
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports: eha (>= 2.5.1),
    ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
    survival (>= 2.41-3),
    reshape2 (>= 1.4.3),
       stats (>= 3.5.0)
RoxygenNote: 6.0.1


From: Hugh Parsonage 
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 10:12 PM
To: Eggleston, Barry 
Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION 
meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

Thank you. Could you provide the contents of DESCRIPTION too? That might 
provide the richest clue. If you have a link to an online copy of the package 
that could be helpful too.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 12:01 Eggleston, Barry 
mailto:beggles...@rti.org>> wrote:
I am working through my first package submission.  When I checked my package 
using devtools::build_win(), I got no errors and two notes.  One note is simply 
the expected note that my package is a new submission.  My second note involves 
DESCRIPTION meta-information, but nothing is printed so I don't know what to 
focus on.  I have copied the important parts of my 00check.log from CRAN below 
for context.  What areas of my DESCRIPTION file might create such an empty 
note?  Thanks in advance for any help you might give me.

* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: 'Barry Eggleston 
mailto:beggles...@rti.org><mailto:beggles...@rti.org<mailto:beggles...@rti.org>>>'

New submission
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
*

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-24 Thread Hugh Parsonage
Thank you. Could you provide the contents of DESCRIPTION too? That might
provide the richest clue. If you have a link to an online copy of the
package that could be helpful too.

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 12:01 Eggleston, Barry  wrote:

> I am working through my first package submission.  When I checked my
> package using devtools::build_win(), I got no errors and two notes.  One
> note is simply the expected note that my package is a new submission.  My
> second note involves DESCRIPTION meta-information, but nothing is printed
> so I don't know what to focus on.  I have copied the important parts of my
> 00check.log from CRAN below for context.  What areas of my DESCRIPTION file
> might create such an empty note?  Thanks in advance for any help you might
> give me.
>
> * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
> Maintainer: 'Barry Eggleston mailto:beggles...@rti.org
> >>'
>
> New submission
> * 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 hidden files and directories ... OK
> * checking for portable file names ... OK
> * checking whether package 'BayesCTDesign' can be installed ... OK
> * checking installed package size ... OK
> * checking package directory ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
>
> * 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
> * loading checks for arch 'i386'
> ** 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 use of S3 registration ... OK
> * loading checks for arch 'x64'
> ** 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 use of S3 registration ... 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 ... [41s] OK
> * checking Rd files ... OK
> * checking Rd metadata ... OK
> * checking Rd line widths ... 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 ...
> ** running examples for arch 'i386' ... [19s] OK
> ** running examples for arch 'x64' ... [22s] OK
> * checking PDF version of manual ... OK
> * DONE
> Status: 2 NOTEs
>
> Barry
>
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[R-pkg-devel] Get an empty note for "checking DESCRIPTION meta-information" when I run devtools::build_win()

2018-07-24 Thread Eggleston, Barry
I am working through my first package submission.  When I checked my package 
using devtools::build_win(), I got no errors and two notes.  One note is simply 
the expected note that my package is a new submission.  My second note involves 
DESCRIPTION meta-information, but nothing is printed so I don't know what to 
focus on.  I have copied the important parts of my 00check.log from CRAN below 
for context.  What areas of my DESCRIPTION file might create such an empty 
note?  Thanks in advance for any help you might give me.

* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: 'Barry Eggleston mailto:beggles...@rti.org>>'

New submission
* 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 hidden files and directories ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking whether package 'BayesCTDesign' can be installed ... OK
* checking installed package size ... OK
* checking package directory ... OK
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE

* 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
* loading checks for arch 'i386'
** 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 use of S3 registration ... OK
* loading checks for arch 'x64'
** 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 use of S3 registration ... 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 ... [41s] OK
* checking Rd files ... OK
* checking Rd metadata ... OK
* checking Rd line widths ... 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 ...
** running examples for arch 'i386' ... [19s] OK
** running examples for arch 'x64' ... [22s] OK
* checking PDF version of manual ... OK
* DONE
Status: 2 NOTEs

Barry


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