rstan_package_skeleton: Error - Path does not appear to be inside a project or package

[stan-dev]

rstan_package_skeleton: Error - Path does not appear to be inside a project or package

[jgabry]

Thanks a lot for the initial report and the follow ups! I haven't had a chance to look thoroughly yet, but we're aiming for a release soon and will be sure to get this sorted out first.

[jgabry]

Yeah, I think this is fixed in PR #44, which is for the next major release of rstantools. If you want to try it out and report back that would be great!

[jgabry]

Sorry I should have clarified that you would need to install from a particular branch for the time being:

devtools::install_github("stan-dev/rstantools", ref = "mlysy-rstantools_patch")

[decision-sciences]

Thank you very much Jonah for helping me out. BTW for those who also want to convert the existing directory created by rstan_create_package() into a git repository, use usethis::use_git() then it will add necessary files there for you.

[stephensrmmartin]

Was able to work around this by modifying the rstan_package_skeleton function to include:
usethis::proj_set(DIR)
on line 49.

The next error occurs:

> suppressMessages(roxygen2::roxygenise(package.dir = DIR,
+                                       clean = TRUE))
Writing NAMESPACE
Error in getDLLRegisteredRoutines.DLLInfo(dll, addNames = FALSE) : 
  must specify DLL via a “DLLInfo” object. See getLoadedDLLs()

[stephensrmmartin]

That was worked around by building w/out documentation first, using pkgbuild::compile_dll(), then documenting after. I also realized after entirely too much time spent that stan models cannot have dashes in their file name. It's fine for stan_model(), but not for when creating a package with the model in stan_models/.

[ZhaoQii]

Guys, any new progress on this error?

[decision-sciences]

Hi, thanks for sharing this. I reinstall the latest rstantools package from Github. But same error returned again as in the first post:

> library("rstantools", lib.loc="/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/library")
This is rstantools version 1.5.1.9000
> rstan_package_skeleton(path = 'test1')
Creating package skeleton for package: test1
Running usethis::create_package ...
Warning: `recursive` is deprecated, please use `recurse` instead
✔ Creating 'test1/'
✔ Setting active project to '/Users/ap/Documents/Columbia/RA CDS/DEEP/DEEP New Pages/test1'
Warning: `recursive` is deprecated, please use `recurse` instead
✔ Creating 'R/'
✔ Writing 'DESCRIPTION'
Package: test1
Title: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
Version: 0.0.0.9000
Authors@R (parsed):
    * First Last <[email protected]> [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/YOUR-ORCID-ID>)
Description: What the package does (one paragraph).
License: What license it uses
Depends:
    methods,
    R (>= 3.4.0),
    Rcpp (>= 1.0.1)
Imports:
    rstan (>= 2.18.2),
    rstantools (>= 1.5.1)
LinkingTo:
    BH (>= 1.69.0-1),
    Rcpp (>= 1.0.1),
    RcppEigen (>= 0.3.3.5.0),
    rstan (>= 2.18.2),
    StanHeaders (>= 2.18.1)
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: GNU make
✔ Writing 'NAMESPACE'
✔ Writing 'test1.Rproj'
✔ Adding '.Rproj.user' to '.gitignore'
✔ Adding '^test1\\.Rproj$', '^\\.Rproj\\.user$' to '.Rbuildignore'
✔ Setting active project to '<no active project>'
Error: Path '/Users/ap/Documents/Columbia/RA CDS/DEEP/DEEP New Pages/' does not appear to be inside a project or package.

[decision-sciences]

Great, the new function rstan_create_package works now here! But it seems that the structure of package it constructed does not appear to be a git repository (indicated by Github Desktop Mac) so I can't publish it there.

[jgabry]

Right, it's not automatically a git repository but it can easily be made into a git repository in the same way as you would turn any existing directory into a git repository using the GitHub Desktop app or command line git. Another option is to use the extra functionality in the usethis package (the new rstan_create_package is basically a wrapper around usethis::create_package()). For example, the usethis::use_github() function that will create a github repo for your package after it's created by rstan_create_package(). Hope that helps!

[jgabry]

Closing since #44 has now been merged into master