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Cannot install my created packages

I've been writing a lot of code for my personal use and finally reached a point where I realised I should really be including this all in a package which I can load in instead of copy and pasting it in each time.

I followed the following tutorial for the creation of a basic package.

https://hilaryparker.com/2014/04/29/writing-an-r-package-from-scratch/

As far as I can tell everything went well with the actual creation element. Here are screenshots of the result:

The cats folder:

1

The /cats/R folder

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The /cats/man folder

3

The problem comes when I want to run the line:

install("cats")

When I try to do that I get the following error:

Installing cats
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.1/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL "/Documents/cats" --library="C:/Users/Aodhán/Documents/R/win-library/3.3" --install-tests 

 * installing *source* package 'cats' ...

 Warning in file(file, if (append) "a" else "w") :

  cannot open file 'C:/Users/Aodhán/Documents/R/win-library/3.3/cats/DESCRIPTION': No such file or directory

 Error in file(file, if (append) "a" else "w") : 

 cannot open the connection

 ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'cats'

 * removing 'C:/Users/Aodhán/Documents/R/win-library/3.3/cats'

 Error: Command failed (1)

This error happens for my own package, but it also happens if I run the command:

devtools::install_github("klutometis/roxygen")

Any advice would be appreciated.

EDIT: Could it be that my username contains the character á in it?

EDIT 2:The DESCRIPTION file is:

Package: cats

Title: What the Package Does (one line, title case)

Version: 0.0.0.9000

Authors@R: person("First", "Last", email = "first.last@example.com", role = c("aut", "cre"))

Maintainer: Aodhán O'Leary

Author: Aodhán O'Leary [aut, cre]

Description: What the package does (one paragraph).

Depends: R (>= 3.3.1)

License: What license is it under?

Encoding: UTF-8

LazyData: true

RoxygenNote: 6.0.1

Sys.getenv("R_HOME") returns "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.1"

Sys.getenv("R_LIBS_USER") returns "C:\Users\Aodhán\Documents/R/win-library/3.3"

Sys.getenv("R_HOME") returns "C:\Users\Aodhán\Documents"

devtools::build("cats") creates "cats_0.0.0.9000.tar.gz"

install.packages("../cats_version.tar.gz") returns the same error as above

Note: This is on a Win10 machine, using R 3.3.1, which I apologise for not mentioning up top. I was quite tired when writing the post yesterday.

Edit 3: Here's the result of using the following commands: R CMD build cats followed by R CMD check cats

00check:

  • using log directory 'C:/Users/Aodhán/Documents/cats.Rcheck'
  • using R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
  • using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit)
  • using session charset: ISO8859-1
  • checking for file 'cats/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
  • this is package 'cats' version '0.0.0.9000'
  • package encoding: UTF-8
  • checking package namespace information ... OK
  • checking package dependencies ... OK
  • checking if this is a source package ... OK
  • checking if there is a namespace ... OK
  • checking for .dll and .exe files ... OK
  • checking for hidden files and directories ... NOTE Found the following hidden files and directories: .gitignore These were most likely included in error. See section 'Package structure' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
  • checking for portable file names ... OK
  • checking whether package 'cats' can be installed ... ERROR Installation failed. See 'C:/Users/Aodhán/Documents/cats.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
  • DONE

Status: 1 ERROR, 1 NOTE

00install.out

  • installing source package 'cats' ...

Warning in file(file, if (append) "a" else "w") : cannot open file 'C:/Users/Aodhan/Documents/cats.Rcheck/cats/DESCRIPTION':

No such file or directory

Error in file(file, if (append) "a" else "w") : cannot open the connection

ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'cats'

  • removing 'C:/Users/Aodhán/Documents/cats.Rcheck/cats'
Solution

  • The problem was the special character in my name, á. When I put it in the C:\ directory and ran R CMD build cats and R CMD check cats it passed that error (though there was an error later on with the pdf - I'll see if I can resolve that myself).

    I'll try and post this as a bug. Moderately annoying. Should have thought of that test earlier.