[Bioc-devel] nightly build errors while checking tests

[Kelly Street]

Hello,

I've recently noticed that the nightly builds for the slingshot package
(both release and devel versions) are failing on merida1, but I can't
figure out why. It has something to do with the tests, but I am unable to
reproduce the error. Here is the build report for the release version:
http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/release/bioc-LATEST/slingshot/merida1-checksrc.html

R CMD check provides this output:

* checking tests ...
  Running ‘testthat.R’
 ERROR
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Complete output:
  > library(testthat)
  > library(slingshot)
  Loading required package: princurve
  >
  > test_check("slingshot")

And the slingshot.Rcheck/tests/testthat.Rout.fail output is similar:

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> library(testthat)
> library(slingshot)
Loading required package: princurve
>
> test_check("slingshot")

There's not a lot of information to go on, so has anybody else seen this
kind of behavior? I went through the list of packages with errors in the
nightly builds and didn't see anything exactly like this, although
the paxtoolsr package was failing in a similar way (seemingly due to a Java
issue?). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Kelly Street

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