On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, James Bullard wrote: > Hello, I am having an issue with R CMD check with the nightly build of > RC 2.3.0 (listed in the subject.)
This is all explained in TFM, `Writing R Extensions'. > The problem is this warning: > > * checking if this is a source package ... WARNING > Subdirectory 'src' contains: > README _Makefile > These are unlikely file names for src files. > > In fact, they are not source files, but I do not see any reason why they > cannot be there, or why I need to be warned of their presence. > Potentially I could be informed of their presence, but that is another > matter. Having unnecessary files in other people's packages just waste space and download bandwidth for each one of the users. > Now, I only get this warning when I do: > > R CMD build affxparser > R CMD check -l ~/R-packages/ affxparser_1.3.3.tar.gz > > If I do: > > R CMD check -l ~/R-packages affxparser > > I do not get the warning. Is this inconsistent, or is there rationale > behind this? I think the warning is inappropriate, or at the least a > little restrictive. It seems as if I should be able to put whatever I > want in there, especially the _Makefile as I like to build test programs > directly and I want to be able to build exactly what I check out from > my source code repository without having to copy files in and out. All described in TFM, including how to set defaults for what is checked. > The output from R CMD check is below. Any insight would be appreciated. > As always thanks for your patience. [...] -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
