Using create_package outside of Rstudio gives incorrect error message

[TimTaylor]

Using create_package within an interactive session but outside of the RStudio console gives a misleading error message. Note the change of directory is successful even though the error message would indicate the folder does not exist. This error message does not appear when using RStudio.

R> getwd()
[1] "/home/tim"
R> usethis::create_package("test")
✔ Creating 'test/'
✔ Setting active project to '/home/tim/test'
✔ Creating 'R/'
✔ Writing 'DESCRIPTION'
Package: test
Title: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
Version: 0.0.0.9000
Authors@R (parsed):
    * First Last <first.last@example.com> [aut, cre] (YOUR-ORCID-ID)
Description: What the package does (one paragraph).
License: `use_mit_license()`, `use_gpl3_license()` or friends to
    pick a license
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.1.0
✔ Writing 'NAMESPACE'
✔ Changing working directory to 'test/'
Error: Directory 'test' does not exist.
Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.
✔ Setting active project to '<no active project>'
R> getwd()
[1] "/home/tim/test"

R> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24)
Platform: x86_64-suse-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: openSUSE Tumbleweed

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /usr/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C             
 [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.utf8    LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.utf8       LC_NAME=C                
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C           
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C      

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] devtools_2.3.0 usethis_1.6.1 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.4.6      rstudioapi_0.11   xml2_1.3.2        knitr_1.28       
 [5] magrittr_1.5      roxygen2_7.1.0    pkgload_1.0.2     R6_2.4.1         
 [9] rlang_0.4.5       fansi_0.4.1       stringr_1.4.0     tools_4.0.0      
[13] pkgbuild_1.0.7    xfun_0.13         sessioninfo_1.1.1 cli_2.0.2        
[17] git2r_0.26.1      withr_2.2.0       ellipsis_0.3.0    remotes_2.1.1    
[21] assertthat_0.2.1  digest_0.6.25     rprojroot_1.3-2   crayon_1.3.4     
[25] processx_3.4.2    purrr_0.3.4       callr_3.4.3       fs_1.4.1         
[29] ps_1.3.2          testthat_2.3.2    memoise_1.1.0     glue_1.4.0       
[33] stringi_1.4.6     compiler_4.0.0    desc_1.2.0        backports_1.1.6  
[37] prettyunits_1.1.1

[jennybc]

Suspect this is fundamentally the same complaint as #954 and (hopefully) fixed by #1024

[pachiras]

Hello,

I'm new to creating R packages, but I'm having
the same problem with @tjtnew.

Had the problem solved in ver1.6.1?

> getwd()
[1] "/tmp"
> usethis::create_package("test")
✔ Creating 'test/'
✔ Setting active project to '/tmp/test'
✔ Creating 'R/'
✔ Writing 'DESCRIPTION'
Package: test
Title: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
Version: 0.0.0.9000
Authors@R (parsed):
* First Last <first.last@example.com> [aut, cre] (YOUR-ORCID-ID)
Description: What the package does (one paragraph).
License: `use_mit_license()`, `use_gpl3_license()` or friends to
pick a license
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
✔ Writing 'NAMESPACE'
✔ Changing working directory to 'test/'
Error: Directory 'test' does not exist.
✔ Setting active project to '<no active project>'
> getwd()
[1] "/tmp/test"
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 8 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /usr/lib64/libopenblas-r0.3.3.so

locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] usethis_1.6.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.5       roxygen2_7.1.1   fansi_0.4.1      crayon_1.3.4
[5] rprojroot_1.3-2  assertthat_0.2.1 R6_2.4.1         lifecycle_0.2.0
[9] backports_1.1.9  git2r_0.27.1     magrittr_1.5     pillar_1.4.6
[13] stringi_1.5.3    rlang_0.4.7      cli_2.0.2        rstudioapi_0.11
[17] fs_1.5.0         xml2_1.3.2       vctrs_0.3.4      ellipsis_0.3.1
[21] desc_1.2.0       tools_4.0.2      stringr_1.4.0    glue_1.4.2
[25] purrr_0.3.4      xfun_0.17        compiler_4.0.2   pkgconfig_2.0.3
[29] knitr_1.29       tibble_3.0.3

[jennybc]

Had the problem solved in ver1.6.1?

No the commit linked above as the fix was made after the v1.6.1 release.

[pachiras]

Thanks, @jennybc
I installed the package from GitHub and confirmed that the error disappeared.