[Tikzdevice-bugs] CRAN package warnings

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The CRAN package checks at
http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html have for some
months been showing warnings of the form

* checking loading without being on the library search path ... WARNING

for packages

GOSim RLadyBug UScensus2000 UScensus2010 VIM accuracy svKomodo tikzDevice

This indicates an error in your startup code, which needs to work even
if your package is attached by library("foo", lib.loc="bar"): most often
libname has not been passed on in .onLoad or .onAttach.

Please fix by July 9, or the package will be archived on CRAN. (There
may be other issues shown on those pages which need to be addressed.)

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[Uwe Ligges]

On 21.06.2012 12:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> The CRAN package checks at
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html have for some
> months been showing warnings of the form
>
> * checking loading without being on the library search path ... WARNING
>
> for packages
>
> GOSim RLadyBug UScensus2000 UScensus2010 VIM accuracy svKomodo tikzDevice

... of which accuracy will already be archived on June 23 according to a
former notification I sent on May 31.

Uwe

> This indicates an error in your startup code, which needs to work even
> if your package is attached by library("foo", lib.loc="bar"): most often
> libname has not been passed on in .onLoad or .onAttach.
>
> Please fix by July 9, or the package will be archived on CRAN. (There
> may be other issues shown on those pages which need to be addressed.)
>

[Charlie Sharpsteen]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
> wrote:

>
>
> On 21.06.2012 12:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> The CRAN package checks at

>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/**checks/check_summary.html<http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html>have for some

>> months been showing warnings of the form
>>
>> * checking loading without being on the library search path ... WARNING
>>
>> for packages
>>
>> GOSim RLadyBug UScensus2000 UScensus2010 VIM accuracy svKomodo tikzDevice
>>
>
> ... of which accuracy will already be archived on June 23 according to a
> former notification I sent on May 31.
>
> Uwe
>
>
>
>
> This indicates an error in your startup code, which needs to work even
>> if your package is attached by library("foo", lib.loc="bar"): most often
>> libname has not been passed on in .onLoad or .onAttach.
>>
>> Please fix by July 9, or the package will be archived on CRAN. (There
>> may be other issues shown on those pages which need to be addressed.)
>>
>

I think I see the cause of the error in our startup code. However, I am
currently on vacation and in the middle of moving. My box with R testing
environments is currently packed away in a basement in Salem.

I can get a fix out sometime this month, but not by July 9. Is there an
impending R release that will be affected by this bug?


Thanks a bunch for sending out an alert.


-Charlie

[Uwe Ligges]

On 07.07.2012 03:22, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Uwe Ligges
> <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de

> <mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>> wrote:

>
>
>
> On 21.06.2012 12 <tel:21.06.2012%2012>:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
> The CRAN package checks at

> http://cran.r-project.org/web/__checks/check_summary.html

> <http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html> have
> for some
> months been showing warnings of the form
>
> * checking loading without being on the library search path ...
> WARNING
>
> for packages
>
> GOSim RLadyBug UScensus2000 UScensus2010 VIM accuracy svKomodo
> tikzDevice
>
>
> ... of which accuracy will already be archived on June 23 according
> to a former notification I sent on May 31.
>
> Uwe
>
>
>
>
> This indicates an error in your startup code, which needs to
> work even
> if your package is attached by library("foo", lib.loc="bar"):
> most often
> libname has not been passed on in .onLoad or .onAttach.
>
> Please fix by July 9, or the package will be archived on CRAN.
> (There
> may be other issues shown on those pages which need to be
> addressed.)
>
>
>
> I think I see the cause of the error in our startup code. However, I am
> currently on vacation and in the middle of moving. My box with R testing
> environments is currently packed away in a basement in Salem.

Please always keep CRAN@... CCed.

The subject line: It is tikzDevice rather than Tikzdevice.

We may be able to extend the deadline, if you tell us a date that is not
too far beyond July 9.

> I can get a fix out sometime this month, but not by July 9. Is there an
> impending R release that will be affected by this bug?

Well, even all former releases are affected, we just haven't found the
bug with former checks. Hence the update is important.

Best,
Uwe Ligges