[SPARK-16507][SPARKR] Add a CRAN checker, fix Rd aliases

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Add a check-cran.sh script that runs `R CMD check` as CRAN. Also fixes a number of issues pointed out by the check. These include
- Updating `DESCRIPTION` to be appropriate
- Adding a .Rbuildignore to ignore lintr, src-native, html that are non-standard files / dirs
- Adding aliases to all S4 methods in DataFrame, Column, GroupedData etc.  This is required as stated in https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Documenting-S4-classes-and-methods
- Other minor fixes

## How was this patch tested?

SparkR unit tests, running the above mentioned script

Author: Shivaram Venkataraman <shivaram@cs.berkeley.edu>

Closes #14173 from shivaram/sparkr-cran-changes.

1 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/R/check-cran.sh b/R/check-cran.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..b3a6860961
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/check-cran.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+set -o pipefail
+set -e
+
+FWDIR="$(cd `dirname $0`; pwd)"
+pushd $FWDIR > /dev/null
+
+if [ ! -z "$R_HOME" ]
+  then
+    R_SCRIPT_PATH="$R_HOME/bin"
+  else
+    # if system wide R_HOME is not found, then exit
+    if [ ! `command -v R` ]; then
+      echo "Cannot find 'R_HOME'. Please specify 'R_HOME' or make sure R is properly installed."
+      exit 1
+    fi
+    R_SCRIPT_PATH="$(dirname $(which R))"
+fi
+echo "USING R_HOME = $R_HOME"
+
+# Build the latest docs
+$FWDIR/create-docs.sh
+
+# Build a zip file containing the source package
+"$R_SCRIPT_PATH/"R CMD build $FWDIR/pkg
+
+# Run check as-cran.
+# TODO(shivaram): Remove the skip tests once we figure out the install mechanism
+
+VERSION=`grep Version $FWDIR/pkg/DESCRIPTION | awk '{print $NF}'`
+
+"$R_SCRIPT_PATH/"R CMD check --as-cran --no-tests SparkR_"$VERSION".tar.gz 
+
+popd > /dev/null