Problems building package at CRAN

[Dominick Samperi]

Hello,

I submitted the package RcppTemplate to CRAN a couple of weeks ago but
the Mac OS X binary has not appeared, and the person in charge of that
process
(Simon) suspects that the problem may be due to a
"nested DESCRIPTION file" so that "Package:" becomes
RcppTemplateRcppTemplate, or something like this.

Can somebody explain what a nested DESCRIPTION file is so I can
resolve this problem?

Thanks,
Dominick

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[Marc Schwartz-3]

On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Dominick Samperi wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I submitted the package RcppTemplate to CRAN a couple of weeks ago but
> the Mac OS X binary has not appeared, and the person in charge of  
> that process
> (Simon) suspects that the problem may be due to a
> "nested DESCRIPTION file" so that "Package:" becomes
> RcppTemplateRcppTemplate, or something like this.
>
> Can somebody explain what a nested DESCRIPTION file is so I can
> resolve this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Dominick

Based upon a quick review of your package's page on CRAN:

   http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcppTemplate/index.html

it would appear that the OSX binary is present and the CRAN check page  
at:

   http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RcppTemplate.html

only shows an ERROR for Solaris.

However, upon downloading the source package, you appear to have a  
".test" folder within the main package folder, which seems to have a  
redundant copy of the full package source within it. That folder of  
course includes a duplicate. albeit older, DESCRIPTION file. You  
should delete the .test folder to clean up the package source tree and  
re-submit.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

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[Dominick Samperi-2]

Thanks Marc, sounds like a plausible theory. I'll check it out...
Dominick

Marc Schwartz wrote:

> On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Dominick Samperi wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I submitted the package RcppTemplate to CRAN a couple of weeks ago but
>> the Mac OS X binary has not appeared, and the person in charge of
>> that process
>> (Simon) suspects that the problem may be due to a
>> "nested DESCRIPTION file" so that "Package:" becomes
>> RcppTemplateRcppTemplate, or something like this.
>>
>> Can somebody explain what a nested DESCRIPTION file is so I can
>> resolve this problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dominick
>
>
> Based upon a quick review of your package's page on CRAN:
>
>   http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcppTemplate/index.html
>
> it would appear that the OSX binary is present and the CRAN check page
> at:
>
>   http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RcppTemplate.html
>
> only shows an ERROR for Solaris.
>
> However, upon downloading the source package, you appear to have a
> ".test" folder within the main package folder, which seems to have a
> redundant copy of the full package source within it. That folder of
> course includes a duplicate. albeit older, DESCRIPTION file. You
> should delete the .test folder to clean up the package source tree and
> re-submit.
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz

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