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On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 3:06 PM Sam Albers <tonightsthenight at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am experience some issues with building a package that we are
> hosting on GitHub. The package itself is quite large. It is a data
> package with a bunch of spatial files stored as .rds files.
>
> The repo is located here: https://github.com/bcgov/bcmaps.rdata
>
> If we clone that package to local machine via:
> git clone https://github.com/bcgov/bcmaps.rdata
>
> The first oddity is that the package installs successfully using this:
>
> $ R CMD INSTALL "./bcmaps.rdata"
>
> But fails when I try to build the package:
>
> $ R CMD build "./bcmaps.rdata"
> * checking for file './bcmaps.rdata/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'bcmaps.rdata':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> * looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added
> Warning in gzfile(file, "rb") :
> cannot open compressed file 'bcmaps.rdata', probable reason
> 'Permission denied'
> Error in gzfile(file, "rb") : cannot open the connection
> Execution halted
>
>
> The second oddity is that if I remove the . from the Package name in
> the DESCRIPTION file, the build proceeds smoothly:
>
> $ R CMD build "./bcmaps.rdata"
> * checking for file './bcmaps.rdata/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'bcmapsrdata':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> * looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added
> * building 'bcmapsrdata_0.2.0.tar.gz'
>
> I am assuming that R CMD install builds the package internally so I
> find it confusing that I am not able to build it myself. Similarly
> confusing is the lack of a . in the package name indicative of
> anything?
>
> Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Am I missing something
> obvious?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sam
>
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