[Rd] CRAN check for package on Sparc Solaris

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This issue is discussed in 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Writing-portable-packages, 
to which he was referred by the CRAN report.  It fails in the same way 
with --disable-long-double on an x86_64 Linux box (as he was told).

On 13/05/2015 20:48, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> The metafor package currently fails CRAN checks on Sparc Solaris:
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_metafor.html
>
> The problem is probably due to an unintended (= stupid) use of identical() in a couple tests. I have changed that to more appropriate tests using all.equal(). However, before I resubmit the package to CRAN, I would really like to make sure that the updated package passes all checks also on Sparc Solaris.
>
> The issue/question of how to test packages on Sparc Solaris has come up before:
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-September/058538.html
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-November/062430.html
>
> Unless anything has changed in the meantime, it seems like the help of kind volunteers is still the only option to conduct such tests. So, is there anybody out there with access to a Sparc machine running Solaris willing to run 'R CMD check --as-cran' on the updated tarball? Would be very much appreciated!
>
> Best,
> Wolfgang
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