[R-pkg-devel] Using shared libraries

2018-03-28 Thread Ogan Mancarci
I have been looking for ways to use shared libraries in packages in CRAN and be able to write tests for them. When installing packages that depend on shared libraries, if a library is missing from the system we often get a nice error message complaining about the missing library during installatio

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Error from svDialogs unless attached to search path

2018-03-28 Thread Georgi Boshnakov
Hi, "svDialogs" depends on svGUI but doesn't import functions it needs. This happens with packages which have not been updated for some time and thus may not conform to the requirements to import stuff even for dependencies. Try adding "svGUI" to "Depends:" as a temporary measure and contact t

[R-pkg-devel] Error from svDialogs unless attached to search path

2018-03-28 Thread Paul Hibbing
Hi, I need to use dialog boxes in my package by calling functions from the svDialogs package, e.g. svDialogs::dlgInput(). However, I get the below error when I try to use some functions without first attaching svDialogs to the search path with library() or require(). > # library(svDialogs)

[R-pkg-devel] Encoding problems in Rd files when submitting package to CRAN

2018-03-28 Thread Michael Blum
Dear all I recently submitted a new version of a package called apTreeshape to CRAN and my package did not pass the check because of the following error * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. This typically indicates Rd problems. LaTeX errors found