[R] Error executing R CMD check --as-cran caused by missing Maintainer field

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 03/08/2013 09:04, Stefano Costa wrote:
> Il 03/08/2013 09:23, Prof Brian Ripley ha scritto:
>>
>> Use R CMD build to prepare a tarball.  CRAN submission requires a
>> tarball as prepared by R CMD build ... and asks you to check the tarball
>> you are about to submit, not a directory.
>
> Thanks, that was my mistake. Perhaps the error message could be more
> explicit in that regard?

'Anna Karenina Applies'.

We really don't have resources to program explicit error messages for 
every error every non-reader of the documentation might make. 
Especially for what are essentially private tests for CRAN.

>
> Stefano
>


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