[Rcpp-devel] Error creating package with RcppArmadillo

[William Dunlap]

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


Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>
> 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/ff36007c3562e8c7a8517ae1519642
> 9fd9f8fb6d/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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