[Rd] help with revdepcheck

[William R Revelle]

Updating my X code was the secret.  

Thanks.

Bill

> On Dec 13, 2025, at 17:13, William R Revelle <revelle using northwestern.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 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 Is your version of R out of date?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$psych) |> with(
> >  Package[NeedsCompilation == 'yes']
> > ) |> length()
> > # [1] 27
> >
> > In order to run R CMD check for them, you'll need a working compiler.
> > Have you got Xcode installed? Is it possible for you to install Xcode
> > 14.3? If you don't get a better answer here and there's no answer at
> > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mac.r-project.org/__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QmPWFRE70ORstrSQsQH62FBt6MbTmNQnFeWkrB3XVg7Qsp0wGi1et-wfliKHW7cpjkQiP-PAQi6s7BvgpR9280E$ >, try asking at R-SIG-Mac using r-project.org.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Ivan
> >
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