Re: [R-pkg-devel] [External] Re: What is a "retired"package?

2021-09-22 Thread Martin Maechler
> Lenth, Russell V > on Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:43:07 + writes: > As I suspected, and a good point. But please note that the term "retired" causes angst, and it may be good to change that to "superceded" or something else. well, some of us will become "retired" somewhere in t

Re: [R-pkg-devel] [External] Re: What is a "retired"package?

2021-09-22 Thread Spencer Graves
On 9/22/21 2:38 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: Lenth, Russell V on Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:43:07 + writes: > As I suspected, and a good point. But please note that the term "retired" causes angst, and it may be good to change that to "superceded" or something else. well, some of us

Re: [R-pkg-devel] [External] Re: What is a "retired"package?

2021-09-22 Thread Avi Gross via R-package-devel
Philosophy aside, albeit not uninteresting, I am wondering about the etiquette of developing a package and then years later dealing with how to have it replaced carefully. Do creators and maintainers have any obligation and especially when there is a large remaining embedded base of users. We may h

Re: [R-pkg-devel] README.html doesn't show figures in CRAN web

2021-09-22 Thread Jose Barrera
Dear Duncan, Indeed, I had accidentally deleted man/figures before tar.gz. Silly error. Now fixed and working. Thanks for the light. Jose Barrera Statistician, Associate Lecturer ISGlobal Barcelona Institute for Global Health - Campus MAR Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) (Room Hypatia)

[R-pkg-devel] ERROR (re)building vignettes

2021-09-22 Thread Blume Christine
Dear community, When building my package 'SleepCycles' using devtools::check, devtools::check_win_devel, and devtools::check_rhub, I do not get warnings, errors, or notes. Nevertheless, there seems to be an error when building the vignettes eventually (https://cran-archive.r-project.org/web/ch

Re: [R-pkg-devel] ERROR (re)building vignettes

2021-09-22 Thread Maƫlle SALMON via R-package-devel
Dear Christine, Looking at the chunk that causes the error https://github.com/cran/SleepCycles/blob/141186934418af387f0af257e3079af588e72844/vignettes/introduction.Rmd#L50-L56 (via the CRAN mirror maintained by R-hub): * You should not install packages from a vignette. You can add "eval=FALSE"