[R-pkg-devel] R CMD check getting stalled

[Hadley Wickham]

Ok, it looks like it's actually quite a subtle problem. (Thanks to
Winston Chang for tracking it down). The root of the problem appears
to be the call to du at
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/9ffe87264a1cd59a31a829f72d57af0f1bfa327a/src/library/tools/R/check.R#L3639

With 32-bit R Sys.which("du") finds Rtools/bin/du.exe, whereas 64-bit
R finds c:/windows/system32/du.exe (see attached screenshot).

Hadley


On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> I guess a package that was installed by root and later on checked by a
> regular user or some such, so that permissions do not match.
>
> I think I'd try to remove the package from all libraries and try again. And
> note that network drives/mounts may be the source of such a problem when
> some listings are disabled.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
> On 28.05.2015 23:02, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>>
>>> Wild guess: It's not the package but the file system or file permissions
>>> so
>>> that you cannot determine the size.
>>
>>
>> Do you have any thoughts on where specifically to look? Permissions of
>> the library or of the current dir?
>>
>> I also wondered if it might be caused by a recursive link that caused
>> the size inspection to never finish, but there aren't any symlinks in
>> the package.
>>
>> I have one student in a class of ~60 students who has this problem.
>> The package source is at https://github.com/hadley/rv2/tree/check-me,
>> but it seems unlikely to be related to the package as it works for
>> everyone else.
>>
>> Hadley
>>
>



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