[Rcpp-devel] Error creating package with RcppArmadillo

mike guggis mikeguggis at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 15:00:10 CEST 2018


I installed pkgKitten and it passed the check. Thank you very much.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 2:35 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at 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 | edd at debian.org
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