[Bioc-devel] How to recreate R CMD BUILD environment in interactive session?

[Martin Morgan]

On 10/23/2017 09:26 AM, Elizabeth Purdom wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am updating an existing package and I am getting an error in running my vignette (and a similar error in an example in help pages) but ONLY when I run R CMD BUILD. I can’t recreate the error in any session where I can debug and figure out what is happening. So my question is how can I recreate the exact environment of R CMD BUILD that runs the vignette but in an interactive session so that I can figure out what is going on?
> 
> I have tried reproducing the error in other environments:
> 
> * Running R —vanilla interactively and trying the code manually
> * running purl on my vignette to get pure R code and running just the R code with R CMD BATCH —vanilla

hint on the specific package and / or error message?

My approach would be to install the package, Stangle / purl the 
vignette, and R -f vignette.R, then trim the vignette to a fast 
reproducible case. But it sounds like you're doing that...

Martin

> * Running R —vanilla interactively and compiling the vignette
> 
> But all of the above runs the code without any error.
> 
> Furthermore, for some reason TravisCI can build the package without problem nor does it hit any error in R CMD CHECK with TravisCI so for a long time I assumed it was some local file or environment on my machine and forgot about it. But now that I have pushed the changes to Bioconductor, they are getting the same error about the vignette not building.
> 
> By the way, I can’t slowly take back my commands to see what broke it, because the change was a dramatic one involving redefining my S4 class, so a large number of things had to be adapted before any code would work and there’s no way to slowly roll that back.
> 
> Most of the posts I have seen about debugging discrepancies between R CMD BUILD (or equivalently R CMD CHECK) seem to be about namespace issues with other packages. Of course I can’t be sure since I have a pretty terse error from R CMD BUILD, but the error that is given is my own error (it’s a check I wrote as part of the validity check when I updated the class) so it seems unclear how it would be a namespace error.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> Elizabeth Purdom
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