[R-pkg-devel] can't reproduce cran-pretest error

[J C Nash]

I think several of us have had similar issues lately. You might have seen my posts on reverse dependencies.
It seems there are some sensitivities in the CRAN test setup, though I think things are improving.

Last week I submitted optimx again. I don't think I changed anything but the date and some commentary
in documentation files. The pre-test was much better than before, but still had two "complaints". One of
these was an "ERROR" of the type "non-convergence -- please choose a different minimizer" (in mvord)
and the other was a "WARNING" since my new package (optimx) subsumes the functionality of several other
packages, including optextras, so the functions from that were now masked, as might be expected. This
was in surrosurv.

However, I did follow protocol and report these false positives, but have had no response from CRAN
team. Nor any response to previous msgs about 2 months ago. I suspect some volunteer overload, but
if that is the case, I would hope the CRAN team would ask for help. I know there are several of us
willing to help if we can. And the new functionality does fix some actual bugs, as well as providing
improvements. Without renewal, particularly for infrastructure packages, R will decay.

Cheers, JN



On 2018-07-26 03:11 PM, Brad Eck wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I'm having trouble reproducing errors from CRAN's pretests.
> 
> I have a package on CRAN called epanet2toolkit that provides R bindings
> to a legacy simulation engine written in C.  So far I've released two
> versions
> to CRAN without trouble.  Now I'm making a third release, principally to
> include
> a citation for the package, but also to clean up warnings raised by new
> compilers.
> 
> My latest submission fails the CRAN pretests for Debian with errors in the
> examples and tests:
> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/
> epanet2toolkit_0.3.0_20180726_102947/Debian/00check.log
> 
> For what it's worth, the package checks fine under R-3.4.4, R-3.5.0 and
> R-devel
> r74997 (2018-07-21) and r74923 (2018-06-20).
> 
> However, when I run the debian-r-devel checks locally (albeit in Docker) I
> get
> a couple of warnings, but no errors. Since I can't reproduce the error, it's
> difficult to fix. See below the relevant lines of 00check.log:
> 
> * using log directory ‘/pkg/epanet2toolkit.Rcheck’
> * using R Under development (unstable) (2018-07-25 r75006)
> * using platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> * using session charset: UTF-8
> * using option ‘--as-cran’
> * checking for file ‘epanet2toolkit/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
> * checking extension type ... Package
> ...
> * checking whether package ‘epanet2toolkit’ can be installed ... WARNING
> Found the following significant warnings:
>   text.h:421:9: warning: ‘        Kw        Kw      /d’ directive writing
> 30 bytes into a region of size between 23 and 278 [-Wformat-overflow=]
> See ‘/pkg/epanet2toolkit.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.
> ...
> * checking compilation flags used ... WARNING
> Compilation used the following non-portable flag(s):
>   ‘-Wdate-time’ ‘-Werror=format-security’ ‘-Wformat’
> * checking compiled code ... OK
> * checking examples ... OK
> * checking for unstated dependencies in ‘tests’ ... OK
> * checking tests ... OK
>   Running ‘testthat.r’
> * checking PDF version of manual ... OK
> * DONE
> Status: 2 WARNINGs, 1 NOTE
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any insights.
> 
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