Re: [R-pkg-devel] appropriate directory for data downloads in examples, demos and vignettes

2015-06-29 Thread Paul Gilbert
Regarding alternative places for scripts, you can add a directory (eg inst/testLocalScripts) and then with a recently added R CMD feature you can do R CMD check --test-dir=inst/testLocalScripts your-package.tar.gz This will not (automatically) be checked on CRAN. Beware that you also need

Re: [R-pkg-devel] download.file and https

2015-07-02 Thread Paul Gilbert
behaviour still does not work. Paul /Henrik On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Paul Gilbert pgilbert...@gmail.com wrote: (This problem with download.file() affects quantmod, and possibly several other packages. e.g. getSymbols('M2',src='FRED') fails.) I think the St Louis Fed has moved to using https

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies? - Part 2

2016-08-04 Thread Paul Gilbert
On 08/04/2016 11:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 4 August 2016 at 11:46, Paul Gilbert wrote: | If my package has a test that needs another package, but that package is | not needed in the /R code of my package, then I indicate it as | "Suggests", not as "Depends&q

[R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies? - Part 2

2016-08-04 Thread Paul Gilbert
(One question from the thread Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies?) I hope not to start another long tangled thread, but I have a basic confusion which I think has a yes/no answer and I would like to know if there is agreement on this point (or is it only me that is confused as usual).

Re: [R-pkg-devel] package fails with parallel make - would forcing a serial version work?

2019-01-14 Thread Paul Gilbert
(I didn't see an answer to this, so ...) I think using .NOTPARALLEL will usually get rid of the error but, in my experience, this problem is usually caused by an incorrect or incomplete Makefile. When not done in parallel this missing target is usually getting done first as a side-affect of

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting a package whose unit tests sometimes fail because of server connections

2019-04-17 Thread Paul Gilbert
from your package then it cannot be properly checked by other people. Paul Gilbert On 4/16/19 2:16 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 16 April 2019 at 11:40, Will wrote: | Some things I have considered include: | |1. Skipping all unit tests on CRAN (using something like |*testtht::sk

[R-pkg-devel] translation .mo files

2020-02-08 Thread Paul Gilbert
looked there and many other places. I need a section or page reference.) Thanks, Paul Gilbert __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN check texi2dvi failure

2021-01-10 Thread Paul Gilbert
e. Maybe using \url in the vignette could fix the error? kind regards Enrico [*] R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: Ubuntu 20.10 > On Sat, 09 Jan 2021, Paul Gilbert writes: I am trying to debug a problem that is appearing in the l