R help - Mar 2004 - R CMD check errors

Hello,

I'm getting some error messages from R CMD check I can't deal with.
I'm working under Linux with R 1.8.1
The package working directory can be found at:

http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/math/org/mathe7/DISTR/distr.tar.gz


Here's the 00check.log produced by R CMD check distr

* using log directory '/home/tom/studium/R/swp/swp/package/distr.Rcheck'
* checking for file 'distr/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking package directory ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking index information ... OK
* checking package subdirectories ... WARNING
Subdirectory 'data' contains no data sets.
Subdirectory 'src' contains no source files.
* checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
* checking R files for library.dynam ... OK
* checking S3 generic/method consistency ... WARNING
Error in .tryQuietly({ : Error in library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc,
character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) :
        package/namespace load failed
Execution halted
* checking for replacement functions with final arg not named 'value'
... WARNING
Error in .tryQuietly({ : Error in library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc,
character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) :
        package/namespace load failed
Execution halted
* checking Rd files ... OK
* checking for missing documentation entries ... ERROR
Error in .tryQuietly({ : Error in library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc,
character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) :


Thanks for your help,
Thomas Stabla

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Stabla <statho3 at
web.de>
>>>>>     on Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:15:50 +0100 (CET) writes:
    Thomas> Hello,

    Thomas> I'm getting some error messages from R CMD check I can't
deal with.
    Thomas> I'm working under Linux with R 1.8.1
    Thomas> The package working directory can be found at:

    Thomas>
http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/math/org/mathe7/DISTR/distr.tar.gz


    Thomas> Here's the 00check.log produced by R CMD check distr

I got it and I can confirm to get warnings / errors along these
lines, also with today's  "R-1.9.0 alpha"


    Thomas> * using log directory
'/home/tom/studium/R/swp/swp/package/distr.Rcheck'
    Thomas> * checking for file 'distr/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
    Thomas> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
    Thomas> * checking package directory ... OK
    Thomas> * checking for portable file names ... OK
    Thomas> * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
    Thomas> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
    Thomas> * checking index information ... OK
    Thomas> * checking package subdirectories ... WARNING
    Thomas> Subdirectory 'data' contains no data sets.
    Thomas> Subdirectory 'src' contains no source files.

(so just delete these two directories for now; but that doesn't
 help for the real problem below !)

    Thomas> * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
    Thomas> * checking R files for library.dynam ... OK
    Thomas> * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... WARNING
    Thomas> Error in .tryQuietly({ : Error in library(package, lib.loc =
lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) :
    Thomas> package/namespace load failed
    Thomas> Execution halted
    Thomas> * checking for replacement functions with final arg not named
'value' ... WARNING
    Thomas> Error in .tryQuietly({ : Error in library(package, lib.loc =
lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) :
    Thomas> package/namespace load failed
    Thomas> Execution halted
    Thomas> * checking Rd files ... OK
    Thomas> * checking for missing documentation entries ... ERROR
    Thomas> Error in .tryQuietly({ : Error in library(package, lib.loc =
lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) :


Yes, unfortunately, you don't get better errors here.

     [[ -> feature request ;-) ]]

But since "R CMD check" *does* install the package , you just
load/attach it manually 
(using 'lib.loc = "..." !) and can see what the matter is :

  > library(distr,
lib.loc="/u/maechler/R/other-people/distr.Rcheck")
  Error in loadNamespace(i[[1]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), keep.source) : 
	  package 'stepfun' does not have a name space
  Error in library(distr, lib.loc =
"/u/maechler/R/other-people/distr.Rcheck") :
	  package/namespace load failed


Now this does help you further.
Particularly for the above case, I'd recommend to

** Get and install "R-1.9.0 alpha" and exclusively work with R-1.9.x
** for the "distr" package.

Reason: From 1.9.0 on, "stepfun" is part of "stats"  
	- which *is* a namespace
	- and a "default package", i.e. you don't even have to
	  say "library(stats)" by default.

With high regards to the "distr" developers,
Martin

Thomas Stabla wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm getting some error messages from R CMD check I can't deal with.
> I'm working under Linux with R 1.8.1
> The package working directory can be found at:
> 
> http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/math/org/mathe7/DISTR/distr.tar.gz
> 
> 
> Here's the 00check.log produced by R CMD check distr
> 
> * using log directory
'/home/tom/studium/R/swp/swp/package/distr.Rcheck'
> * checking for file 'distr/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
> * checking package directory ... OK
> * checking for portable file names ... OK
> * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking index information ... OK
> * checking package subdirectories ... WARNING
> Subdirectory 'data' contains no data sets.
> Subdirectory 'src' contains no source files.
So, if you don't want to provide data files or C/C++/Fortran sources, 
you want to delete those directories.
BTW: There's no documentation in that package ...

> * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
> * checking R files for library.dynam ... OK
> * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... WARNING
> Error in .tryQuietly({ : Error in library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc,
character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) :
>         package/namespace load failed
Your NAMESPACE file is syntactically incorrect (hint: you need to quote 
in exportPattern()). Please read "Writing R extensions", and please
read
the ReadMe files in all directories which have been created by 
package.skeleton().

Uwe Ligges



> Execution halted
> * checking for replacement functions with final arg not named
'value' ... WARNING
> Error in .tryQuietly({ : Error in library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc,
character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) :
>         package/namespace load failed
> Execution halted
> * checking Rd files ... OK
> * checking for missing documentation entries ... ERROR
> Error in .tryQuietly({ : Error in library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc,
character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) :
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Thomas Stabla
>