On 4/19/06, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I hope the contents of a README file is more valuable than the what it costs to download it though. You gave a similar comment on a similar question I had in February this year and also said "quoting you last reply "Can you not put your master sources on your own web site." Is it a general consensus on R-devel that *.tar.gz distributions should only be treated as a distribution for *building* packages and not for developing them? What do others think? If so there are plenty of ways to make source packages even smaller like having R CMD build removing source code comments and empty lines etc. This could possibly be an option to "build". Personally, I prefer paying for the extra bandwidth and treat *.tar.gz as a very convenient base for development too. Best, /Henrik > > 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 > > -- Henrik Bengtsson Mobile: +46 708 909208 (+2h UTC) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
