Error: Could not find package root.

[Timothy Bates]

after the prompt 

> Have

> you checked on win-builder (with `check_win_devel()`)?

> 1: I agree

> 2: Nope

> 3: I forget

>  Selection: 1

I get 

> Error: Could not find package root.

PS: Is it intended that "release" no longer runs `R CMD check` ( the new version of devtools "Have you run `R CMD check`  locally?

running `packageVersion("devtools")`

[1] ‘1.13.6.9000’

[Timothy Bates]

Any clues on this? I'm still getting  "Error: Could not find package root."

duckduckgo'ing that error yields nothing except a cryptic comment about DESCRIPTION. I have a DESCRIPTION field...

[Gábor Csárdi]

We would need a reproducible example, I am afraid.

Gabor

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 7:16 PM Timothy Bates <timothy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Any clues on this? I'm still getting "Error: Could not find package root."
>
> duckduckgo'ing that error yields nothing except a cryptic comment about DESCRIPTION. I have a DESCRIPTION field...
>

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[Timothy Bates]

Thanks Gábor, 

I guess the repro would be to pull my package 

github_install("tbates/umx") 

and try 

devtools::release(pkg = "~/bin/umx", check = FALSE)

this produces the error. A traceback yields:

> traceback()

5: stop("Could not find package root.", call. = FALSE)

4: package_file(path = x)

3: as.package(pkg)

2: find_release_questions()

1: devtools::release(pkg = "~/bin/umx", check = FALSE)

The package passes win build. I'm using

packageVersion("devtools")

[1] ‘2.0.1.9000’

[Gábor Csárdi]

What is github_install?

Gabor

[Timothy Bates]

sorry typing rather than coding

install_github("tbates/umx")

 

[Timothy Bates]

SO, the answer to this is that correctly setting "pkg=" in functions like release() is no longer sufficient for the function to work. This seems like a bug to me.

The solution is to `setwd("~/path/to/package")`