document() failing after upgrade from 1.7.0 to 1.12.0 due to NAMESPACE file

[RalphJO]

Note: Also upgrading roxygen2 from 4.1.1 to 6.0.1

Hi,

I have a package for which document() was working with devtools 1.7.0 and roxygen2 4.1.1.

After upgrading to devtools 1.12.0 and roxygen2 6.0.1 it fails as follows:

If the NAMESPACE file exists prior to calling document I get

Warning: The existing 'NAMESPACE' file was not generated by roxygen2, and will not be overwritten.

with the result that build fails as my imports and exports are not set up (previously the NAMESPACE file was over-written).

However, if I delete the existing NAMESPACE file (which should be fully created by roxygen2 anyway) I get

Updating MyPackage documentation
Loading MyPackage
Re-compiling MyPackage
"c:/R-3.3.2/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save
--no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL
"C:\MyPackage"
--library="C:\Users\Ralph\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp4QMFIi\devtools_install_14a44c08602b"
--no-R --no-data --no-help --no-demo --no-inst --no-docs --no-exec
--no-multiarch --no-test-load --preclean

• installing source package 'MyPackage' ...
  ERROR: a 'NAMESPACE' file is required

This error occurs in the call to install_min
from compile_dll
from load_all
from document

[BarkleyBG]

I've had a similar issue with devtools 1.12 and roxygen2 6.0.1. However, I was able to get this to work with devtools 1.12 and roxygen2 4.0.1. If you rolled back to your roxygen2 4.1.1, are you able to get this to work?

EDIT:
I am also having issue nearly identical to r-lib/roxygen2#600, which may or may not be helpful to diagnosing the issue in the present issue ticket.

[hadley]

Just delete the contents of NAMESPACE, without deleting the complete file.

[privefl]

I have the same issue.
Deleting the contents of NAMESPACE didn't change the warning: Warning: The existing 'NAMESPACE' file was not generated by roxygen2, and will not be overwritten..
Command used: devtools::document(roclets=c('rd', 'collate', 'namespace')).

[jimhester]

Just keep the # Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand line at the top then.

[RalphJO]

Thank you for all the suggestions. Adding # Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand to the namespace file is the workaround that worked for me. It does feel like a workaround not a fix though: I'm not sure a function designed to create the documentation should fail with an error if a piece of documentation doesn't exist. ----Original message---- From : notifications@github.com Date : 09/03/2017 - 13:06 (GMT) To : devtools@noreply.github.com Cc : ralpholsson@btinternet.com, author@noreply.github.com Subject : Re: [hadley/devtools] document() failing after upgrade from 1.7.0 to 1.12.0 due to NAMESPACE file (#1466) Just keep the # Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand line at the top then. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread. {"api_version":"1.0","publisher":{"api_key":"05dde50f1d1a384dd78767c55493e4bb","name":"GitHub"},"entity":{"external_key":"github/hadley/devtools","title":"hadley/devtools","subtitle":"GitHub repository","main_image_url":"https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/143418/17495839/a5054eac-5d88-11e6-95fc-7290892c7bb5.png","avatar_image_url":"https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/143418/15842166/7c72db34-2c0b-11e6-9aed-b52498112777.png","action":{"name":"Open in GitHub","url":"https://github.com/hadley/devtools"}},"updates":{"snippets":[{"icon":"PERSON","message":"@jimhester in #1466: Just keep the `# Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand` line at the top then."}],"action":{"name":"View Issue","url":"#1466 (comment)"}}}

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