Good morning: I submitted a package update to CRAN and got a bounce because I had not run R CMD check with "--as-cran". I'd not heard of that before, but I'm glad to know about it now. I see it warns when my functions do use partial argument matching, and I like that advice very much. Also I see this warning * checking package subdirectories ... WARNING Found the following directory(s) with names of version control directories: ./.svn ./R/.svn ./data/.svn ./inst/.svn ./inst/doc/.svn ./inst/examples/.svn ./vignettes/.svn These should not be in a package tarball. Is there a way to cause R to ignore the .svn folders while running R CMD check --as-cran or R CMD build? It seems a little tedious to have to copy the whole directory tree to some other place and remove the .svn folders before building. I can do it, but it just seems, well, tedious. I have the feeling that you "frequent flyers" would have worked around this already. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science ? ?Assoc. Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 ? ? Center for Research Methods University of Kansas ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.org ? ? ? ? ? ?http://quant.ku.edu
On 12/03/2012, at 18:03 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:> Good morning: > > I submitted a package update to CRAN and got a bounce because I had > not run R CMD check with "--as-cran". I'd not heard of that before, > but I'm glad to know about it now. > > I see it warns when my functions do use partial argument matching, and > I like that advice very much. > > Also I see this warning > > * checking package subdirectories ... WARNING > Found the following directory(s) with names of version control directories: > ./.svn > ./R/.svn > ./data/.svn > ./inst/.svn > ./inst/doc/.svn > ./inst/examples/.svn > ./vignettes/.svn > These should not be in a package tarball. > > Is there a way to cause R to ignore the .svn folders while running R > CMD check --as-cran or R CMD build? > > It seems a little tedious to have to copy the whole directory tree to > some other place and remove the .svn folders before building. I can do > it, but it just seems, well, tedious. I have the feeling that you > "frequent flyers" would have worked around this already.Paul, I think the best solution is to 'svn export' svn directory to a temporary directory/folder: svn export my-svn-directory tmp-pkg-directory R CMD build tmp-pkg-directory R CMD check --as-cran ... The two advantages of 'svn export' that it (1) strips the .svn specific files, and (2) it really exports only those files that really are under version control. More often than once I have had some non-svn files in my svn directory so that *my* version of the package works, but the one actually in subversion fails. Cheers, Jari Oksanen -- Jari Oksanen, Dept Biology, Univ Oulu, 90014 Finland jari.oksanen at oulu.fi, Ph. +358 400 408593, http://cc.oulu.fi/~jarioksa
On 12/03/2012 16:00, Paul Johnson wrote:> Good morning: > > I submitted a package update to CRAN and got a bounce because I had > not run R CMD check with "--as-cran". I'd not heard of that before, > but I'm glad to know about it now.Well, it has only existed for about a month, but the customizations its selects are often much older and were documented as being used by CRAN.> I see it warns when my functions do use partial argument matching, and > I like that advice very much.It switches on a customization that has been documented for years ....> > Also I see this warning > > * checking package subdirectories ... WARNING > Found the following directory(s) with names of version control directories: > ./.svn > ./R/.svn > ./data/.svn > ./inst/.svn > ./inst/doc/.svn > ./inst/examples/.svn > ./vignettes/.svn > These should not be in a package tarball. > > Is there a way to cause R to ignore the .svn folders while running R > CMD check --as-cran or R CMD build? > > It seems a little tedious to have to copy the whole directory tree to > some other place and remove the .svn folders before building. I can do > it, but it just seems, well, tedious. I have the feeling that you > "frequent flyers" would have worked around this already. >You are strongly recommended to run this *on the tarball to be submitted*. If you have .svn directories in that tarball, then you do (or CRAN will) have a problem. R CMD build does omit such directories, and you can of course use .Rbuildignore to ignore other things. Or if you update to subversion 1.7.x the problem will evaporate, as that only stores .svn directories at the top level, in my case ~/R/svn/Rpkgs, above all the individual packages. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595