create_package() is giving errors about malformed line
setgree opened this issue · comments
what I'm trying to do
Follow the directions in https://r-pkgs.org/whole-game.html
what's happening
> usethis::create_package(path = "~/Desktop/regexcite")
✔ Setting active project to '/Users/[username]/Desktop/regexcite'
Error in read.dcf(con) :
Line starting 'c("aut", "cre"), ...' is malformed!
✔ Setting active project to '<no active project>'
This happens in many subdirectories and with many package names.
what I'm looking for
some sense of what's causing this error? I don't see, in this package's internals, what function is being called that creates this message. The folder regexcite is being created, as is the subdirectory R, but no .Rproj or anything else.
Is it a problem with putting it in a subfolder?
session info
> session_info()
─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
setting value
version R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)
os macOS Sonoma 14.1.2
system x86_64, darwin20
ui RStudio
language (EN)
collate en_US.UTF-8
ctype en_US.UTF-8
tz America/New_York
date 2024-01-02
rstudio 2023.12.0+369 Ocean Storm (desktop)
pandoc 3.1.11 @ /usr/local/bin/pandoc
─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
package * version date (UTC) lib source
cachem 1.0.8 2023-05-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
cli 3.6.2 2023-12-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
crayon 1.5.2 2022-09-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
desc 1.4.3 2023-12-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
devtools * 2.4.5 2022-10-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
digest 0.6.33 2023-07-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
ellipsis 0.3.2 2021-04-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
fansi 1.0.6 2023-12-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
fastmap 1.1.1 2023-02-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
fs 1.6.3 2023-07-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
glue 1.6.2 2022-02-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
htmltools 0.5.7 2023-11-03 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
htmlwidgets 1.6.4 2023-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
httpuv 1.6.13 2023-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
knitr 1.45 2023-10-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
later 1.3.2 2023-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
lifecycle 1.0.4 2023-11-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
magrittr 2.0.3 2022-03-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
memoise 2.0.1 2021-11-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
mime 0.12 2021-09-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
miniUI 0.1.1.1 2018-05-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
pillar 1.9.0 2023-03-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
pkgbuild 1.4.3 2023-12-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
pkgconfig 2.0.3 2019-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
pkgload 1.3.3 2023-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
profvis 0.3.8 2023-05-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
promises 1.2.1 2023-08-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
purrr 1.0.2 2023-08-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
R6 2.5.1 2021-08-19 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
Rcpp 1.0.11 2023-07-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
remotes 2.4.2.1 2023-07-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
rlang 1.1.2 2023-11-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
roxygen2 7.2.3 2022-12-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
rprojroot 2.0.4 2023-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
rstudioapi 0.15.0 2023-07-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
sessioninfo 1.2.2 2021-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
shiny 1.8.0 2023-11-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
stringi 1.8.3 2023-12-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
stringr 1.5.1 2023-11-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
tibble 3.2.1 2023-03-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
urlchecker 1.0.1 2021-11-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
usethis * 2.2.2 2023-07-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
utf8 1.2.4 2023-10-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
vctrs 0.6.5 2023-12-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
withr 2.5.2 2023-10-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
xfun 0.41 2023-11-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
xml2 1.3.6 2023-12-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
xtable 1.8-4 2019-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
[1] /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-x86_64/Resources/library
I fixed it by editing my .Rprofile. I deciphered the error message after thinking about it for a while but overall, I think the messaging could be clearer. Thanks!