Fix for #394

[kevinushey]

Hi Hadley,

A simple fix for #394. We read in the DESCRIPTION and strip out any blank lines. Not so sure if you want to give a warning though.

[hadley]

I think if you add warn = FALSE this also eliminates the need for "Ensure the DESCRIPTION ends with a newline"

[hadley]

Thanks!

[jacopone]

Hi all, apologies if this is not the right way to report this.

I've installed Rcompression to solve this problem http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Decompressing-raw-vectors-in-memory-td4603202.html via install_github("omegahat/Rcompression").

It seems that the problem reported here also happens here https://github.com/omegahat/Rcompression/blob/master/DESCRIPTION, and I expected, maybe wrongly, this fix to solve it.

Or should I remove blank lines from https://github.com/jacopone/Rcompression/blob/master/DESCRIPTION ?

Thanks

[kevinushey]

I was just able to run install_github("omegahat/Rcompression") without issue, so at least it seems like the devtools side of things are in good shape (using the latest CRAN version of devtools + underlying packages).

That said, removing the trailing spaces as you have is an appropriate workaround if you're still seeing the issue.

[jacopone]

Yes that works well. The problem really happens when in a project using packrat:

• install_github("omegahat/Rcompression")
• packrat::snapshot()

Then when I restore() it breaks. The workaround I'm using so far is forking Rcompression, removing the spaces and using that version on my project.

Thanks!

[kevinushey]

That seems like a fair workaround. Ultimately it seems like the bug would lie in Packrat though, not devtools (it has its own version of install_github() used during restore)