[R] I'd like to request that my R CRAN package is not tested on Solaris OS

[Bill Dunlap]

gctorture(TRUE) helps too, but it will take a long time.

-Bill

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 11:07 AM lampros mouselimis <
mouselimislampros using gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you all for your answers,
>
> I'll give it a try using both valgrind (on linux) and the rhub's linux gcc
> Address Sanitizers (Asan). I've already used rhub to test the package on
> the Solaris OS but it didn't give any error (it seems to me that the
> configurations between CRAN and rhub differ).
>
> Lampros
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 20:31, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I agree with others that this suggests there is a hidden bug in the
>> code.  In addition to running with Valgrind, R-hub's
>>
>> > rhub::check(platform="linux-x86_64-rocker-gcc-san")
>>
>> will compile the native code with the Address Sanitizer (ASan) and the
>> UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (UBSan).  Those have helped me in the past
>> to track down mistakes, and even spot things I was not aware of.  And
>> it's an ease of mind as a developer when these tools and Valgrind
>> checks give all OK reports.
>>
>> The R-hub services is cross-platform and requires no local setup.
>>
>> /Henrik
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 7:41 AM Bill Dunlap <williamwdunlap using gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I agree with Stefan.  Try using valgrind (on Linux) to check for memory
>> > misuse:
>> >
>> > R --debugger=valgrind --debugger-args="--leak-check=full
>> > --track-origins=yes"
>> > ...
>> > > yourTests()
>> > > q("no")
>> >
>> > -Bill
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 7:30 AM Stefan Evert <stefanML using collocations.de>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Just to add my personal cent to this:  I've had similar issues with
>> an R
>> > > package some time ago, which kept crashing somewhat unpredictably in
>> the
>> > > Solaris tests.
>> > >
>> > > Debugging was hard because it only happened on Solaris, but in the
>> end it
>> > > turned out to be due to serious bugs in the code that only happened to
>> > > surface in the Solaris tests.   I would think that it's likely to be
>> the
>> > > same for your package, so the segfaults shouldn't be accepted too
>> readily
>> > > as a platform quirk.
>> > >
>> > > Best
>> > > SE
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > On 22 Oct 2021, at 15:47, Marc Schwartz via R-help <
>> r-help using r-project.org>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > 1. The CRAN repository policy here:
>> > > >
>> > > >  https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html
>> > > >
>> > > > notes:
>> > > >
>> > > > "Package authors should make all reasonable efforts to provide
>> > > cross-platform portable code. Packages will not normally be accepted
>> that
>> > > do not run on at least two of the major R platforms. Cases for
>> Windows-only
>> > > packages will be considered, but CRAN may not be the most appropriate
>> place
>> > > to host them."
>> > > >
>> > > > That would seem to infer that, with reasonable justification, one
>> may be
>> > > able to make a request of the CRAN maintainers to exclude at least
>> one of
>> > > the OS platforms from testing. A request that would be at the
>> discretion of
>> > > the CRAN maintainers and Solaris, in light of the low market
>> prevalence,
>> > > may be a more common exclusion as you have noted below.
>> > >
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>> > >
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