I am trying to install packages (devtools, plyr and several others) and keep getting stuck with the same problem, which seems to appear for some packages more often than others There are binary v...

Using the devtools::release() function to submit a new version of a package to CRAN, the file CRAN-SUBMISSION is automatically created and populated with something like this: Version: 0.1.9 Date: 2...

(NOTE: This question includes the word "license". But let's be clear: this question is not asking for licensing advice. It is asking how to simultaneously satisfy the file naming requirements of "s...

I would like to use setTimeLimit to abort operations that are stuck waiting (idle) after n seconds. Below a toy example in which Sys.sleep is a placeholder call that is idle: testlimit <- funct...

When I run devtools::check on my package locally, I don't get this error, but when I submit my package to CRAN, or when I run devtools::check_win_devel, I get this error: 'LazyData' is specified w...

Even when I am afraid to be a bit off-topic, but I am not sure where else to ask this, sorry! I am developing my R-package using a Linux system, hence I can run the R CMD check --as-cran command e...

The question is pretty simple. First: Is it possible to include a non-CRAN (or bioconductor, or omega hat) package in a CRAN package and actually use tools from that package in examples. If yes h...

I cannot install RDCOMClient, using R-3.6 Some background: RDCOMClient works in my R-3.51 instance, and I need to use 3.6, and I need to use RDCOMClient to interact with my desktop's Outlook. mail...

I've created an R package and I'd like to upload it to CRAN via GitHub Actions whenever I merge changes into the master branch. I've found a lot of examples of R actions and I've even looked up how...

For example, if I load the R package "mclust", I see > library(mclust) __ ___________ __ _____________ / |/ / ____/ / / / / / ___/_ __/ / /|_/ / / / / / / / /\__ \ / / / / / / /__...

I am using the R programming language. I am trying to install the "Data Mining with R" (DMwR) package. However, when I visit the CRAN website for this package, it seems to be gone: Packa...

For some reason I am suddenly not able to install packages in R (I have subsequently updated to the latest version of R and am running Windows 7). For example, if I type: install.packages('beeswar...

In doing final checks on a CRAN package submission, this NOTE comes up: * checking top-level files ... NOTE Files ‘README.md’ or ‘NEWS.md’ cannot be checked without ‘pandoc’ being installed. How...

I have a couple of R packages on CRAN that have warnings against Solaris (and sometimes OSX) that are related to pandoc not being available for the vignette build. For example, here are the ggseas ...

I'm using miniconda to manage my installation of data science packages. It is a workflow that I have somewhat established now, so I would like it to work in this case too. I also would assume it to...

When you are doing an R update, what is the best approach to re-installing and updating all packages that were already installed on your previous R version when some of your packages are on CRAN bu...

I have an R package with Fortran and OpenMP than can't pass CRAN. I receive the following message: Your package no longer installs on macOS with OpenMP issues. My Makevars file is: USE_FC_TO_LINK...

I installed R on an OSX 10.7.5 server using brew: brew install R Everything seems so OK far, however Cairo is not working: > svg(tempfile()) Warning messages: 1: In svg(tempfile()) : unable...

Inspecting dplyr shows there's both a README.md file and a README.Rmd file. In the .md file, it says README.md is generated from README.Rmd. Please edit that file It's easy enough to create...

I submitted a package to CRAN and they asked me to replace \dontrun{} by \donttest{} in the Rd-files and resubmit. I was using \dontrun{} to wrap some examples that are supposed to throw error mess...

I'm fairly new to package development and I am about to start the process of submitting a package to CRAN. I've been striving to get down to 0 errors, 0 warnings, & 0 notes. There is 1 note lef...

I'm planning to submit my first package to CRAN. I've heard that you should not have any errors, warnings or notes. However, I get the Note stating that there are too many package dependencies: &qu...

I've been trying to reduce the check time on a package I am submitting to CRAN. On my local machines, check time is somewhere between a minute (i7 CPU) and 2 minutes (i5 CPU). However, CRAN reviewe...

I recently submitted a package to CRAN and received the following errors. WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME checking for code which exercises the package ... WARNING No examples, no ...

On my package, R CMD CHECK returns a NOTE about possibly mis-spelled words in DECRIPTION : * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE > Possibly mis-spelled words in DESCRIPTION: > Lav...