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Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package: Bridging the gap between qualitative data and quantitative analysis
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Fixing 'Author' field #233

Closed imriss closed 7 years ago

imriss commented 7 years ago

To fix this error:

Dasonk commented 7 years ago

This seems like a step backwards? Note this from Writing R Extensions: "Both ‘Author’ and ‘Maintainer’ fields can be omitted if a suitable ‘Authors@R’ field is given" and Authors@R is currently being used. Unless I'm mistaken the Author and Maintainer fields will be autogenerated on CRAN if you'e using Authors@R.

trinker commented 7 years ago

Thank you for the PR. CRAN checks do not indicate the following is an error:

checking for file 'qdap-master/DESCRIPTION' ... ERROR
Required field missing or empty:
'Author'

As @Dasonk suggests the DESCRIPTION file is formatted per Writing R Extensions. Can you tell us where you got the error you mentioned? In other words, was it during install (if so from GitHub or CRAN), R check in the build process, etc.?

imriss commented 7 years ago

@Dasonk @trinker: Thank you for your reply. I was getting the error when installing the package from the github/archive/zip file. Now, I switched to installation via CRAN, and everything is fine.

Dasonk commented 7 years ago

@imriss Were you literally just trying to use the zip of the repository to install the package? That shouldn't work for most packages. If you want to install from github I suggest using devtools::install_github("trinker/qdap") or remotes::install_github("trinker/qdap") depending on if one or the other is on your system.

imriss commented 7 years ago

@Dasonk devtools::install_github("trinker/qdap") worked for me. Thanks.

imriss commented 7 years ago

For the reference, to prepare the Java config on an Arch Linux system, the steps were:

pacaur -S jdk7-openjdk 
sudo R CMD javareconf
devtools::install_github("trinker/qdap")

PS. Updated per comment from @Dasonk below.

Dasonk commented 7 years ago

The issue is closed but your last comment has a few issues. Just so you know you don't necessarily need yaourt to install from 'extra' (and actually yaourt is quite outdated and it's recommended to use a different aur helper if you want to go that route). You only need one or the other of the jdks - I'm not sure why you're grabbing both as only one will be used. You do need to run the javareconf command but that isn't a qdap issue - you need R to know the java configuration for openNLP which uses java. You shouldn't be launching R with sudo though.