Yesterday, I submitted a package to CRAN that I had previously built using `R
CMD build' (no extra arguments), and checked with 'R-devel CMD check --as-cran'
(R-devel is my installation of the latest development version). No errors were
reported in either of these steps.
However, the submitted package contained a LaTeX error in one of the vignettes
-- it had \paragaph{} instead of \paragraph{}. And the submission bounced back
from CRAN because their checking DID catch the error.
So I have two questions...
1. How could a LaTeX error in a vignette possibly get past either R CMD build
or R CMD check --as-cran without errors being reported? (I'll mention that
subsequently I manually ran Sweave and pdflatex on the vignette and it did
report the error -- confirming that I don't have a \paragaph macro defined
somewhere on my own system.) FWIW, this IS system-dependent, as I do get error
messages if I try to build the package on a Mac Pro. But I don't use that as my
primary machine, as it is old, slow, and a laptop. I have a Windows 7 Pro
system, service pack 1,
MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.9.5496 (1.40.15) (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit). Perhaps there's something
different about error flags returned by MiKTeX and how they interact with R.
2. I have struggled previously with vignettes, as they sometimes have not been
re-built when I wanted them to be. So I have finally settled on just putting
the source file and nothing else in the vignettes directory. But that's what
messed me up, because I made a minor change and incorrectly trusted the build
process with detecting any errors. Clearly, I don't fully understand how
vignettes are handled. What's the best way to manage vignettes?
Thanks
Russ
Russell V. Lenth - Professor Emeritus
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
The University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
Voice (319)335-0712 (Dept. office) - FAX (319)335-3017
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