Hi Reed, Have you received any feedback yet? My only guess is that this was a false positive from some static analysis tools on the CRAN maintainer's side; https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-exts.html#Package-subdirectories says that:
> Subdirectory tools is the preferred place for auxiliary files needed during > configuration, and also for sources need to re-create scripts (e.g. M4 files > for autoconf: some prefer to put those in a subdirectory m4 of tools). Perhaps the presence of these files within a CRAN package submission is causing something to trip up. If not, let me know if there's anything I can change on the 'configure' side to help resolve this. Did you also get a warning about the 'cleanup.R' file? That is, my guess is that the presence of these two files (https://github.com/reedacartwright/ironseed/tree/main/tools/config) is somehow causing the issue. Thanks, Kevin On Sat, Jul 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM Reed A. Cartwright <racartwri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I submitted a new package ("ironseed") [1] to CRAN. I am not sure how > to address one feedback message or even what is causing it. It might > be related to Kevin Ushey's R scripts that I am using to configure the > package during installation [2]. The message that I received is below. > > """ > Please ensure that your functions do not write by default or in your > examples/vignettes/tests in the user's home filespace (including the > package directory and getwd()). This is not allowed by CRAN policies. > Please omit any default path in writing functions. In your > examples/vignettes/tests you can write to tempdir(). > -> tools/config.Rtools/config/configure.R > """ > > `tools/config.Rtools/config/configure.R` is not a file in my package. > So I assume that this report is saying that it is being created during > installation, but I can't reproduce it. My package does read and > execute `tools/config/configure.R` during installation, so right now > my guess is that my configure script is somehow creating > `tools/config.Rtools/config/configure.R` when I try to read > `tools/config/configure.R`. Any help figuring this out would be > appreciated. > > [1] https://github.com/reedacartwright/ironseed > [2] https://github.com/kevinushey/configure > > Thanks, > Reed > > -- > Reed A. Cartwright, PhD > Associate Professor of Life Sciences > TEACh Representative - Evolution and Computational Courses > School of Life Sciences and The Biodesign Institute > Arizona State University > ================== > Address: The Biodesign Institute, PO Box 876401, Tempe, AZ 85287-6401 USA > Packages: The Biodesign Institute, 1001 S. McAllister Ave, Tempe, AZ > 85287-6401 USA > Office: Biodesign B-220C, 1-480-965-9949 > Website: http://cartwrig.ht/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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
