[R-pkg-devel] Solaris and ggplot2

[Gábor Csárdi]

This is probably because stringi does not compile on r-hub, and
ggplot2 depends on stringi.
This is a known and as of yet unsolved issue:
https://github.com/gagolews/stringi/issues/275

Gabor

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:58 PM, Dev Chakraborty <dpc10ster at gmail.com> wrote:
> My package RJafroc, which is currently on CRAN, passes all operating
> systems except solaris-x86-patched, and as a result has been flagged for
> removal. Using R-hub builder, I am unable to reproduce the log file because
> a required package, ggplot2, does not exist for Solaris. I found the
> following conversation on GitHub at the following URL:
> https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues/2273 (the conversation is
> reproduced below).
>
> Could use any advice. Thanks.
>
> Dev
>
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> tdhock commented on Sep 23, 2017
> Hey there, it seems that ggplot2 on CRAN has an ERROR on solaris
> https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-patched-so
> laris-x86/ggplot2-00check.html because of a test about date scales that
> does not pass. Do you have any plan to fix?
>
> This is an issue for me because I have a package that imports ggplot2, and
> I would like to use rhub to check it on solaris before submitting it to
> CRAN. *However rhub can not perform the check because the ggplot2 package
> is not available on solaris*. Here is the related issue at rhub
> r-hub/rhub#83
>
>  @hadley
>  Owner
> hadley commented on Oct 30, 2017
> *Probably not, since solaris is going away.*
>
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