[Rcpp-devel] Error creating package with RcppArmadillo

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 13 October 2018 at 10:42, Kevin Ushey wrote:
| I can reproduce if the 'pkgKitten' package is not installed. In that
| case, I see in man/<pkg>-package.Rd:
| 
|     \examples{
|     ~~ simple examples of the most important functions ~~
|     }
| 
| which of course is just a stub and not valid example code (and so
| fails during check).
| 
| I think this is just gunk that gets inserted by R's own
| package.skeleton(), which pkgKitten normally tries to clean up for
| you. See e.g.
| 
| https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/ff36007c3562e8c7a8517ae15196429fd9f8fb6d/src/library/utils/R/prompt.R#L379-L380
| 
| tl;dr: install pkgKitten and make your life easier.

Now *that* is a recommendation I can get behind :)

It is in fact a suggested package for Rcpp too.  

And ...

| On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 1:18 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
[...]
| > Thanks for posting versions.  This sounds ... weird.
| >
| > 1) The issue of 'failing' over these left-overs from the skeleton annoyed me
| > so much (many years ago!!) that I wrote a new helper package 'pkgKitten'.
| >
| > 2) 'pkgKitten' is used (if present) by
| >      Rcpp.package.skeleton()            # in Rcpp
| >      RcppArmadillo.package.skeleton()   # in RcppArmadillo

Now we are reminded that RStudio's package generator uses it too.

| > 3) They work.
| >
| > 4) I just tried your example (of using RStudio's facilities -- which I also
| > use regularly) and COULD NOT reproduce this on
| >      RStudio 1.1.456
| >      RStudio 1.2.1030

... because I keep pkgKitten around on my systems.

All good,  Dirk

| > So I am stumped.  Kevin: Any idea?
| >
| > Dirk

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