[R] R CMD check Note: Non-standard file found at top level

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 03/09/2013 21:50, Hadley Wickham wrote:
> The note is telling you that you usually shouldn't have a file called
> build in the top level of your package. What's in the file and why is
> it there?

Under some circumstances R CMD build puts files in a directory called 
'build', and in the last couple of days R-devel does so much more often. 
  But that NOTE is presumably from a not-current unreleased version of R 
(we were not told, and they should be discussed on the R-devel list).

If you use R-devel, remember it is 'Under development' and new features 
may be experimental, unfinished (including not-yet-documented).
>
> Hadley
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:01 AM, S Subramanian
> <ssubramanian at sssihl.edu.in> wrote:
>> My R CMD check pkgname and R CMD build pkgname run without any notes or
>> warnings or errors.
>>
>> However when i run R CMD check --as-cran-pkgname_version.tar.gz, i get the
>> following note:
>>
>> * checking top-level files ... NOTE
>> Non-standard file found at top level:
>>    'build'
>>
>>
>> Everything else is ok. What is going wrong?
>>
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