[R-pkg-devel] Package check help: Package required but not available

[Michael Dewey]

Dear David

I am afraid R does not know what your flag is doing so you should try 
wrapping the command as you suggested.

Michael

On 01/03/2018 16:05, David Stanley wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I’m new to this list but hopefully you can help me.
> 
> I’m working on updating my apaTables package (most recent code: https://github.com/dstanley4/apaTables)
> 
> However, I’m encountering problems passing the CRAN check because of a package I use (MBESS). MBESS is available on all platforms except r-patched-solaris-x86 (see https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_apaTables.html)
> 
> To work around this I did three things that have not worked.
> 
> 1) I modified the DESCRIPTION file. I moved MBESS from Imports to Suggests
> 
> 2) I manipulated a flag (show.confidence.interval) in my file apaDvalueTable.R show that it is always FALSE if the following is FALSE: requireNamespace("MBESS", quietly = TRUE) . That is, if the package is not there do no calculate the confidence intervals that require it. But I still fail the check. Is this perhaps because I didn’t wrap the MBESS command on line 97 with an “if” using requireNamespace? This command will never be executed without the package though because of the flag.
> 
> 3) I also wrapped a command that uses MBESS in apaRegressionTable.R (line 276) that uses MBESS.
> 
> Any help much appreciated in resolving this "Package required but not available” problem.
> 
> (Detailed CRAN message below. Fixing the Notes issues are easy.)
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> 
> 
> David Stanley, PhD | Associate Professor
> Department of Psychology | University of Guelph
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> 
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> package apaTables_2.0.1.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically, please see the pre-test at:
> <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/180301_161113_apaTables_201/00check.log>
> Status: 2 NOTEs
> 
> Current CRAN status: ERROR: 1, OK: 11
> See: <https://CRAN.R-project.org/web/checks/check_results_apaTables.html>
> 
> Please fix all problems and resubmit a fixed version via the webform.
> If you are not sure how to fix the problems shown, please ask for help on the R-package-devel mailing list:
> <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel>
> If you are fairly certain the rejection is a false positive, please reply-all to this message and explain.
> 
> More details are given in the directory:
> <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/180301_161113_apaTables_201>
> The files will be removed after roughly 7 days.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> CRAN teams' auto-check service
> 
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Michael
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