[Bioc-devel] mygene problems reported by the "Build/check report" for BioC 3.1

[Dan Tenenbaum]

[CC'ing bioc-devel because this kind of thing often happens and the info below is generally helpful in these cases.]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Mark" <adam.maikai at gmail.com>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2015 10:19:46 AM
> Subject: Fwd: mygene problems reported by the "Build/check report" for BioC 3.1
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I received notification about this build error in the mygene package.
> Nothing has been changed recently so I am not sure why this error is
> occurring. Could it be due to an update from other packages?
> 

Yes, it is very likely that a change in one of the packages you depend on has caused this. Or possibly the udpate to R-3.2.1. What you should try and do is see if you can reproduce the problem, by installing the same version of R used on the build system (in this case 3.2.1) and updating all packages to their latest version. You can see what version of packages are installed in the build system by going to (e.g.) http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/release/bioc-LATEST/zin2-R-instpkgs.html .. There is a link like this for each build machine. If you go to the main build report at http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/release/bioc-LATEST/ and then click on the number under "Installed pkgs" in the table at the top that describes each build machine you can get to the link that shows installed packages. Compare this to your sessionInfo(). 

You can now try and reproduce the problem. Install your package and stangle your vignette, then start R and source the resulting R file. 

Does it fail in chunk 4 like it does in the build report? If so, run traceback() and see where the error is.

Since your package failed in release, and bioconductor packages typically don't change much in release, I would suspect a CRAN dependency. Looking at the CRAN dependencies that you have, it appears that httr had a major (from 0.6.1 to 1.0.0) update on June 25th. 

So the problem you are experiencing is either a bug in the new httr or some changed behavior that is perhaps documented in the httr NEWS file which is at https://github.com/hadley/httr/blob/master/NEWS.md .

If it's a bug you can report it at https://github.com/hadley/httr/issues .

Dan


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> Adam Mark
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Chunlei Wu < cwu at scripps.edu >
> Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:26 AM
> Subject: Fwd: mygene problems reported by the "Build/check report"
> for BioC 3.1
> To: Adam Mark < adam.maikai at gmail.com >
> 
> 
> 
> Hi, Adam,
> 
> FYI. Any idea about this error?
> 
> Chunlei
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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	mygene problems reported by the "Build/check report" for
> BioC 3.1
> Date: 	Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:13:17 -0700
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> To: 	Chunlei Wu <cwu at scripps.edu>
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> 
> Hi mygene maintainer,
> 
> According to the "Build/check report" for BioC 3.1,
> the mygene package has the following problem(s):
> 
>   o ERROR for 'R CMD build' on zin2. See the details here:
>   http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/3.1/bioc-LATEST/mygene/zin2-buildsrc.html
>   Please take the time to address this then use your Subversion
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> when you are ready to commit a fix to your package.
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