R help - Sep 2013 - R CMD check Note: Non-standard file found at top level

My R CMD check pkgname and R CMD build pkgname run without any notes or
warnings or errors.

However when i run R CMD check --as-cran-pkgname_version.tar.gz, i get the
following note:

* checking top-level files ... NOTE
Non-standard file found at top level:
  'build'


Everything else is ok. What is going wrong?

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The note is telling you that you usually shouldn't have a file called
build in the top level of your package. What's in the file and why is
it there?

Hadley

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:01 AM, S Subramanian
<ssubramanian at sssihl.edu.in> wrote:
> My R CMD check pkgname and R CMD build pkgname run without any notes or
> warnings or errors.
>
> However when i run R CMD check --as-cran-pkgname_version.tar.gz, i get the
> following note:
>
> * checking top-level files ... NOTE
> Non-standard file found at top level:
>   'build'
>
>
> Everything else is ok. What is going wrong?
>
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>
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Thank you for the replies. As Prof Brian Ripley mentioned, in my case, (I
was using the latest r devel) and  "R CMD build pkgname" indeed put a
directory called build with a file named vignette inside it. So I tried  "R
CMD build --no-build-vignettes pkgname" and the problem got solved. Thanks
again.

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