[R-pkg-devel] Weird error on CRAN linux check

[David Hugh-Jones]

That will indeed fail everywhere.  The puzzle is why it fails (only
sometimes) when the methods are all exported. The GitHub equivalent is tag
v4.0.1-rc1.

On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 at 20:43, Iñaki Úcar <i.ucar86 using gmail.com> wrote:

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> El jue., 5 jul. 2018 21:35, David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjones using gmail.com>
> escribió:
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>> Installed from CRAN or github? CRAN should be OK - I hope!
>>
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> From GitHub before the patch.
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>> On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 at 20:33, Iñaki Úcar <i.ucar86 using gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I installed huxtable in two environments, my own Fedora installation
>>> with R 3.5.0 and all my packages and in a fresh Ubuntu system with R 3.4.4
>>> and an empty library. In both cases, huxtable is unusable: every example I
>>> try fails because it doesn't find the methods.
>>>
>>> So it has nothing to do with R checks or CRAN scripts, and it seems
>>> improbable to me that the error comes from a corrupted dependency.
>>>
>>> Iñaki
>>>
>>>
>>> El jue., 5 jul. 2018 20:06, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>>> On 05/07/2018 9:11 AM, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Agreed. I fixed the roxygen2 and it works fine. But yet, the original
>>>> > v4.0.1 on CRAN has a namespace file which contains
>>>> >
>>>> > S3method(bold,huxtable)
>>>> > export(bold)
>>>> > export(bold.huxtable)
>>>> >
>>>> > and
>>>> >
>>>> > S3method("align<-",huxtable)
>>>> > export("align<-")
>>>> > export("align<-.huxtable")
>>>> >
>>>> > yet still fails on linux-patched and linux-release, with "no
>>>> applicable
>>>> > method" errors for align<- and bold. Unfortunately, I don't know how
>>>> to
>>>> > reproduce the error on any other platform....
>>>>
>>>> I just got R installed on an Ubuntu VM, and ran "R CMD check
>>>> huxtable_4.0.1.tar.gz" both with and without "--as-cran", without
>>>> seeing
>>>> the error you quoted.  (I did see other problems, related to not having
>>>> things like pandoc installed; nothing that looked like a problem with
>>>> the package rather than a problem with my R installation.)
>>>>
>>>> That looks like a bug, but without having a system that can reproduce
>>>> it, it's hard to narrow down where:
>>>>
>>>>   - In R's checks?  Seems unlikely, given it is so system specific.
>>>>   - In CRAN's scripts?  Really unlikely, since all the tests are in R.
>>>>   - In huxtable or some package used by huxtable?  Seems possible:
>>>> maybe memory got corrupted.  Perhaps running under some memory checker
>>>> would be more informative.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps the CRAN team could be helpful here.
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > Anyway, meanwhile, my problem is fixed and I have learned something
>>>> > about function environments.
>>>>
>>>> Given that the error is unrelated to the solution, it really looks like
>>>> memory corruption somewhere or other.
>>>>
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>
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