aqp/soilDB/sharpshootR/soilReports issues with shift to devtools 2.x - Githubissues

ncss-tech / soilReports

An R package that assists with the setup and operation of a collection of soil data summary, comparison, and evaluation reports. These reports are primarily used by USDA-NRCS soil scientists in both initial and update mapping.

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aqp/soilDB/sharpshootR/soilReports issues with shift to devtools 2.x #94

Closed dylanbeaudette closed 5 years ago

dylanbeaudette commented 6 years ago

Recently folks have been noticing warnings / errors when trying to install aqp-family functions from GitHub:

RTools missing / can't be installed
readLines failing with corrupt final line in .Rprofile

There were several issues contributing to this problem:

version discrepancies: devTools 1.x vs. 2.x: 2.x attempts to use RTools
bogus white space on last line in .Rprofile breaks readLines (why?)
install_github is now provided by the remotes package, complete with new argument names

The fix:

close / open RStudio, do not load any packages
upgrade all packages: update.packages(ask=FALSE, checkBuilt = TRUE)
re-make your .Rprofile with the latest, white-space-free-ending-line fix
close / open RStudio so that new .Rprofile is active

Installation of the aqp-family of packages from GitHub must now be done like this:

remotes::install_github("ncss-tech/soilDB", dependencies=FALSE, upgrade=FALSE, build=FALSE)

TODO:

notify usual suspects
fix package documentation, WWW docs, README.md files, and tutorials
update stats class material
push all packages to CRAN more frequently