[Rd] help with revdepcheck

[William R Revelle]

Ivan and Hadley,  et al.

Historically, (that is to say in June)  revdep_check flags those 27 as failures (can not check) but doesn't stop working.  Now, it just stops working with that error message.

My version of R is up to date (4.5.2) and I have installed the latest version of Mac OS.

I will try installing X-code.  I did not want to cross post to the Mac-group until i tried the developer group first.

Thanks.

Bill

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From: R-devel <r-devel-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Hadley Wickham <h.wickham using gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2025 9:22 AM
To: Ivan Krylov <ikrylov using disroot.org>
Cc: r-devel using r-project.org <r-devel using r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Rd] help with revdepcheck

Hmmm, in general you shouldn't need to build the binaries when you can just
download them from CRAN. So I'd start by figuring out why that's not
happening? Is your version of R out of date? Or has one of your reverse
dependencies just been submitted to CRAN and thus doesn't have a binary yet?

Hadley

On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM Ivan Krylov via R-devel <
r-devel using r-project.org> wrote:

> Dear Prof. Revelle,
>
> В Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:29:15 +0000
> William R Revelle <revelle using northwestern.edu> пишет:
>
> > I am trying to submit the latest version of psych and need to check
> > the 294 reverse dependencies.  Normally,  I just run revdep_check()
> > to do this.
> >
> > But today I am being told I do not have the necessary tools to
> > compile C
>
> Indeed, it seems that out of the strong recursive reverse dependencies
> of the 'psych' package, 27 need compilation:
>
> tools::package_dependencies(
>  'psych', reverse=TRUE, which = 'strong', recursive=TRUE
> ) -> revd
> tools::CRAN_package_db() -> db
> db |> subset(Package %in% revd$psych) |> with(
>  Package[NeedsCompilation == 'yes']
> ) |> length()
> # [1] 27
>
> In order to run R CMD check for them, you'll need a working compiler.
> Have you got Xcode installed? Is it possible for you to install Xcode
> 14.3? If you don't get a better answer here and there's no answer at
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>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ivan
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