Bug from CRAN core about rebird

[rmaia]

yeah I got this email today. I notice that you guys have been working on the package a lot, so I don't want to jump ahead, change it and submit it if it's not ready for primetime. So let me know, I can either do anything that might be needed for the package, submit the current github version as is (after editing the license), or if I should change the last submitted commit and send that. Cheers!

[sckott]

Can you/we work on the items in the 0.2 milestone and then push?

[sckott]

See #2 for changing license if you agree to go with MIT that is

[rmaia]

sounds good, I'll try to get to all the milestone issues by tomorrow

[rmaia]

maybe we have enough to close this milestone and send the version with the fixed license now, since there is a deadline, and work on the httr/rcurl thing for v0.3

[sckott]

Sure, that sounds good

[karthik]

@rmaia Yeah, go ahead. It passes all checks for now and should be good to go. We can easily help get the httr version completed before the end of the month.

[rmaia]

so in wrapping up I got this note:

• checking dependencies in R code ... NOTE
  Namespace in Imports field not imported from: 'assertthat'
  All declared Imports should be used.

I'm not sure what was changed that required / stopped requiring "assertthat", I think this just slipped in, but figured I'd check before removing it. Are any functions currently using it? Can I just remove?

[sckott]

I don't see assertthat functions anywhere in the package, so do remove

[karthik]

I'm likely the one that added it in the httr branch so that we use more assertions in the code. Good idea to remove now for submission. I'll put it back when we actually include it.

[rmaia]

OK I'm having trouble building & releasing the package. winbuild went ok, but I think Mavericks messed something up on my xcode devtools.

when trying to build for release, I get the following error:

Checking rebird with devtools
Checking for any extra files in built .tar.gz file... sh: /usr/bin/gnutar: No such file or directory
Error in system(cmd, intern = TRUE) : error in running command

I tried following the instructions here but when I run xcode-select --install and it tries to install the development tools, it cancels halfway with the message:

Can't install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server

I tried waiting a couple days and from different connections (fearing it was my university firewall or something), but still, no luck. Any ideas?

[sckott]

hey @rmaia sorry about that. I had the same problem a while back with the release function. This worked for me r-lib/devtools#379 (comment) Let us know if that doesn't fix it

[karthik]

Yeah, weird it hasn't been fixed on devtools by now. I did the symbolic link too even though it is not the recommended way.

[rmaia]

ok that worked, version 0.1.1 is on CRAN now