Maybe already obvious to you, but this seems to be coming from pandoc, not from R machinery. There are a few extra lines in the log that seem to be relevant ...
[WARNING] This document format requires a nonempty <title> element. Defaulting to ‘README’ as the title. To specify a title, use ‘title’ in metadata or --metadata title="...". pandoc: Stack space overflow: current size 33624 bytes. pandoc: Use `+RTS -Ksize -RTS' to increase it. I think you'd have to figure out what's happened to the pandoc version/configuration in the most recent Debian setup on CRAN ... I don't know if there's a canonical place (or anywhere, for that matter) where one can find a complete list of library/tool versions for the various platforms on CRAN ... cheers Ben Bolker On 2019-11-27 4:19 p.m., Sam Albers wrote: > HI all, > > Submission of a new version of the tidyhydat package to CRAN, I get > this warning on the pre-test checks for Debian: > > * checking top-level files ... WARNING > Conversion of ‘README.md’ failed: > [WARNING] This document format requires a nonempty <title> element. > Defaulting to ‘README’ as the title. > To specify a title, use ‘title’ in metadata or --metadata title="...". > > Here is the actual log: > https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/tidyhydat_0.5.0_20191127_215625/Debian/00check.log > > The .yaml header for the README has not changed since the last > successful submission. Looking at the changes to R 3.6.1 patched, > nothing has changed in README requirement AFAIK. > > Is this a false positive? If not, any thoughts on how to make it go away? > > Best, > > Sam > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel