Dear list members, checking my updated version of prabclus with R-devel --as-cran I get a mysterious note: "* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE Checking should be performed on sources prepared by ?R CMD build?." (No further information is given on that one in 00check.log.) But my source is in fact put together by R CMD build. Can anybody tell me what could be wrong here and how to remove the note? DESCRIPTION looks like this: Package: prabclus Title: Functions for Clustering and Testing of Presence-Absence, Abundance and Multilocus Genetic Data Version: 2.3-1 Date: 2019-06-03 Author: Christian Hennig <christian.hennig at unibo.it>, ??????? Bernhard Hausdorf <Hausdorf at zoologie.uni-hamburg.de> Depends: R (>= 2.10), MASS, mclust Suggests: spdep, spatialreg, bootstrap, maptools, foreign, mvtnorm Description: Distance-based parametric bootstrap tests for clustering with ? spatial neighborhood information. Some distance measures, ? Clustering of presence-absence, abundance and multilocus genetical data ? for species delimitation, nearest neighbor ? based noise detection. Genetic distances between communities. ? Tests whether various distance-based regressions ? are equal. Try package?prabclus for on overview. Maintainer: Christian Hennig <christian.hennig at unibo.it> License: GPL URL: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/christian.hennig/en/ Thanks, Christian -- Christian Hennig Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati", Universita di Bologna, phone +39 05120 98163 christian.hennig at unibo.it currently on leave from UCL; UCL email still works
> On Jun 3, 2019, at 12:13 PM, Christian Martin Hennig <christian.hennig at unibo.it> wrote: > > Dear list members, > > checking my updated version of prabclus with R-devel --as-cran I get a > mysterious note: > > "* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE > Checking should be performed on sources prepared by ?R CMD build?." > > (No further information is given on that one in 00check.log.) > > But my source is in fact put together by R CMD build. > > Can anybody tell me what could be wrong here and how to remove the note? > > DESCRIPTION looks like this: > > Package: prabclus > Title: Functions for Clustering and Testing of Presence-Absence, > Abundance and Multilocus Genetic Data > Version: 2.3-1 > Date: 2019-06-03 > Author: Christian Hennig <christian.hennig at unibo.it>, > Bernhard Hausdorf <Hausdorf at zoologie.uni-hamburg.d e> > Depends: R (>= 2.10), MASS, mclust > Suggests: spdep, spatialreg, bootstrap, maptools, foreign, mvtnorm > Description: Distance-based parametric bootstrap tests for clustering with > spatial neighborhood information. Some distance measures, > Clustering of presence-absence, abundance and multilocus genetical data > for species delimitation, nearest neighbor > based noise detection. Genetic distances between communities. > Tests whether various distance-based regressions > are equal. Try package?prabclus for on overview. > Maintainer: Christian Hennig <christian.hennig at unibo.it> > License: GPL > URL: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/christian.hennig/en/ > > Thanks, > > Christian >Hi Christian, Two things: 1. This should be posted to R-package-devel, which is focused on R/CRAN package development: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel 2. What are the exact commands that you used to build and then check the package? "R CMD build" should result in a source tarball with the extension ".tar.gz", which should then be used fully in the "R CMD check" call. Perhaps the file that you named in the R CMD check call is not correct? Regards, Marc Schwartz
Dear Marc,> Two things: > > 1. This should be posted to R-package-devel, which is focused on R/CRAN package development: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > 2. What are the exact commands that you used to build and then check the package? > > "R CMD build" should result in a source tarball with the extension ".tar.gz", which should then be used fully in the "R CMD check" call. > > Perhaps the file that you named in the R CMD check call is not correct?thanks for this, will join R-package-devel and post there. The file is a .tar.gz as it should be. R CMD check was used in the same way I used it hundred times before (actually two weeks ago on another package that didn't bring up this problem). I think R-devel was updated in the meantime, so it may have to do with the last version. Christian> > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > >-- Christian Hennig Universita di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati" christian.hennig at unibo.it +39 051 2098163 and University College London, Department of Statistical Science
On 03/06/2019 12:13 p.m., Christian Martin Hennig wrote:> Dear list members, > > checking my updated version of prabclus with R-devel --as-cran I get a > mysterious note: > > "* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE > Checking should be performed on sources prepared by ?R CMD build?." > > (No further information is given on that one in 00check.log.) > > But my source is in fact put together by R CMD build. > > Can anybody tell me what could be wrong here and how to remove the note? > > DESCRIPTION looks like this: > > Package: prabclus > Title: Functions for Clustering and Testing of Presence-Absence, > Abundance and Multilocus Genetic Data > Version: 2.3-1 > Date: 2019-06-03 > Author: Christian Hennig <christian.hennig at unibo.it>, > ??????? Bernhard Hausdorf <Hausdorf at zoologie.uni-hamburg.de> > Depends: R (>= 2.10), MASS, mclust > Suggests: spdep, spatialreg, bootstrap, maptools, foreign, mvtnorm > Description: Distance-based parametric bootstrap tests for clustering with > ? spatial neighborhood information. Some distance measures, > ? Clustering of presence-absence, abundance and multilocus genetical data > ? for species delimitation, nearest neighbor > ? based noise detection. Genetic distances between communities. > ? Tests whether various distance-based regressions > ? are equal. Try package?prabclus for on overview. > Maintainer: Christian Hennig <christian.hennig at unibo.it> > License: GPL > URL: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/christian.hennig/en/ >That is not a file from a .tar.gz file built by R CMD build. They include a line like Packaged: 2019-03-12 15:58:50 UTC; murdoch at the end, which was added by R CMD build. If you don't have a line like that, you'll get the note you saw. Duncan Murdoch