CRAN Submission issues

[chainsawriot]

For the CRAN check, there are two issues that make the incoming checks fail.

• Found non-API calls to R: SETLENGTH, SET_TRUELENGTH r-lib/cpp11#355
• And the word "inferencing" is not in CRAN's dictionary of valid words

These two issues make the submission process very annoying. It's still not on cransay. I can't solve the issue of cpp11. But "inferencing" can be fixed here.

Maybe just call this "Minimal type converter" to reduce the friction.

[chainsawriot]

"Minimal type guesser" sounds less generic.

[chainsawriot]

It's on cransays.

[chainsawriot]

Feedback from CRAN

If there are references describing the methods in your package, please
add these in the description field of your DESCRIPTION file in the form
authors (year) <doi:...>
authors (year) <arXiv:...>
authors (year, ISBN:...)
or if those are not available: <https:...>
with no space after 'doi:', 'arXiv:', 'https:' and angle brackets for
auto-linking. (If you want to add a title as well please put it in
quotes: "Title")

Please add \value to .Rd files regarding exported methods and explain
the functions results in the documentation. Please write about the
structure of the output (class) and also what the output means. (If a
function does not return a value, please document that too, e.g.
\value{No return value, called for side effects} or similar)

-> Missing Rd-tags:
      as.col_spec.Rd: \value
      col_skip.Rd: \value
      cols.Rd: \value
      date_names.Rd: \value
      locale.Rd: \value
      parse_atomic.Rd: \value
      parse_factor.Rd: \value
      parse_guess.Rd: \value
      parse_vector.Rd: \value
      type_convert.Rd: \value

You write information messages to the console that cannot be easily
suppressed.
It is more R like to generate objects that can be used to extract the
information a user is interested in, and then print() that object.
Instead of cat() rather use message()/warning() or if(verbose)cat(..)
(or maybe stop()) if you really have to write text to the console.
(except for print, summary, interactive functions) -> R/parser.R

Please always add all authors, contributors and copyright holders in the
Authors@R field with the appropriate roles.
 From CRAN policies you agreed to:
"The ownership of copyright and intellectual property rights of all
components of the package must be clear and unambiguous (including from
the authors specification in the DESCRIPTION file). Where code is copied
(or derived) from the work of others (including from R itself), care
must be taken that any copyright/license statements are preserved and
authorship is not misrepresented.
Preferably, an ‘Authors@R’ would be used with ‘ctb’ roles for the
authors of such code. Alternatively, the ‘Author’ field should list
these authors as contributors. Where copyrights are held by an entity
other than the package authors, this should preferably be indicated via
‘cph’ roles in the ‘Authors@R’ field, or using a ‘Copyright’ field (if
necessary referring to an inst/COPYRIGHTS file)." e.g.: The R Core Team
in DateTime.h
Please explain in the submission comments what you did about this issue.

[chainsawriot]

TODOS

(The first point on references doesn't apply)

• Add @return to all functions?
• Remove catwrap() NOT USED

minty/R/parser.R

Lines 620 to 623 in 9d007f6

	cat_wrap <- function(header, body) {
	body <- strwrap(body, exdent = nchar(header))
	cat(header, paste(body, collapse = "\n"), "\n", sep = "")
	}

• Copyright issue