Sorry, pressed send too soon
base_minfi: minfi
ifneq (,$(wildcard minfi/DESCRIPTION))
minfi_VERSION:=$(shell grep ^Version minfi/DESCRIPTION | sed
's_Version: __')
endif
build_minfi: base_minfi
rm -Rf minfi/inst/doc
R CMD build minfi
check_minfi: build_minfi
R CMD check minfi_$(minfi_VERSION).tar.gz
(minfi being a package name). Makefiles need TABs and I am pretty sure some
of these might be messed up by copy and paste, so you need to fix that. I
tend to add --no-build-vignettes to the R CMD build call, to speed things
up.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM Kasper Daniel Hansen <
[email protected]> wrote:
> So to be super explicit, the thing you need to do on the command line to
> check a package fully is
> R CMD build packageDirectory
> R CMD check packageDirectory_x.y.z.tar.gz
> ie. always run it on a source tarball. You can run R CMD check directly on
> packageDirectory, but it is not the same
>
> Encapsulated in a Makefile, it looks something like this
>
> base_minfi: minfi
> ifneq (,$(wildcard minfi/DESCRIPTION))
> minfi_VERSION:=$(shell grep ^Version minfi/DESCRIPTION | sed 's_Version:
> __')
> endif
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 5:37 AM Duncan Murdoch <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2025-11-17 9:24 p.m., Julian Grimm wrote:
>> > Hello together,
>> >
>> > I have a question regarding the Authors@R field.
>> > When I run R CMD check . in a package either created by myself with
>> > pkgKitten::kitten, usethis::create_package or even on existing packages
>> on
>> > Cran (e.g. the validate package),
>> > I get the following error:
>> >
>> > * checking for file ‘./DESCRIPTION’ ... ERROR
>> > Required fields missing or empty:
>> > ‘Author’ ‘Maintainer’
>> > * DONE
>> >
>> > The corresponding line in the DESCRIPTION file is:
>> >
>> > Authors@R: person("Your", "Name", role = c("aut", "cre"),
>> > email = "[email protected]")
>> >
>> > and Authors@R:
>> > person("First", "Last", , "[email protected]", role =
>> c("aut",
>> > "cre"))
>> >
>> > for pkgKitten and usethis respectively.
>> >
>> > Why does this error occur?
>>
>> You haven't built the package. Some checks only succeed on a built copy
>> of a package, i.e. the *.tar.gz file. The devtools::check() function
>> will do both the build and test.
>>
>> Part of building the package modifies the DESCRIPTION file to insert the
>> Author and Maintainer fields. Another important difference is that
>> .Rbuildignore is processed, so you won't get warnings about files that
>> shouldn't be there, or false success if you accidentally specify
>> ignoring a file that should be kept.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Best,
> Kasper
>
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Best,
Kasper
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