[R-pkg-devel] Package update submission to CRAN fails on pretest

[Wolfgang Lenhard]

Dear Hadley,
many thanks for your comment and much more for your fantastic tutorial 
and packages! I essentially learned (and still learn) package 
development by your tutorial. In the concrete case, changing some 
settings finally did it and devtools worked like charm. I want to thank 
you for your really great work.

There was a strange thing, though, that I do not yet understand. The 
submission failed on some systems (fedora and Mac OS X; not on Win and 
Ubuntu) because of errors building the vignette. Adding rmarkdown to 
imports in the description file solved the pretest rejection and the new 
version of cNORM is on CRAN, but now, I have the following note:
> checking dependencies in R code ... NOTE
> Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘rmarkdown’
>   All declared Imports should be used.

Apart from the note, it works now. Maybe, I remove the code from the 
vignette in future releases and.

Best regards,
Wolfgang

Am 08.12.2018 um 15:31 schrieb Hadley Wickham:
> You might try reinstalling devtools and dependencies - there was
> unfortunately a brief combination of versions that lead to build()
> failing to overwrite existing files.
>
> Hadley
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 10:46 AM Wolfgang Lenhard
> <wolfgang.lenhard using uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>> Many thanks for the remark. It seems, it has something to do with
>> submitting via the devtools (maybe I did something wrong with tagging
>> the prior release). Submitting it manually at least does not result in
>> pretest rejection. I guess there is something out of sync which resulted
>> in rechecking and old version.
>>
>> Am 07.12.2018 um 13:46 schrieb Georgi Boshnakov:
>>> The link you gave, https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_cNORM.html,
>>> is to the check results for the package currently on CRAN and it is indeed v. 1.0.1
>>> (it is linked from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cNORM).
>>>
>>> Was this really the link you got from CRAN's pretest? Sometimes they ask if care has been taken about NOTEs/WARNINGs for the current CRAN version, since some tests are not done during submission, but this doesn't seem the case here.
>>>
>>> Georgi Boshnakov
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: R-package-devel [mailto:r-package-devel-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Lenhard
>>> Sent: 07 December 2018 07:55
>>> To: r-package-devel using r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Package update submission to CRAN fails on pretest
>>>
>>> Dear list,
>>> I am getting problems when trying to submit an update of the package
>>> cNORM to CRAN. I am developing the package with RStudio and devtools and
>>> I am using Travis for automatic testing. The package is tested locally
>>> on Win10 and Mac OS X and on Travis with Ubuntu and Mac both for
>>> development and release versions of R. All local tests and tests on
>>> Travis work flawlessly - no errors, warning or notes. When submitting to
>>> CRAN, a note and an error show up on some of the Linux OS (Fedora &
>>> Solaris) and Mac OS X, while others display an 'OK' (Win, Debian). The
>>> results: https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_cNORM.html
>>>
>>> - error: This seems to be related to the vignette with the following
>>> message:
>>>> * checking examples ... ERROR
>>>> Running examples in ‘cNORM-Ex.R’ failed
>>> I can however not identify the location of the error
>>>
>>> - Note: Check: data for non-ASCII characters
>>>
>>> The strange thing is: I checked all data files multiple times. They
>>> mainly consist of data.frames with numerics and all colnames  are ASCII.
>>> I am not able to replicate the issue. The same is true for the error,
>>> which does not show up on Travis and as well locally. And finally, the
>>> results state, that the version of the package is 1.0.1, which had been
>>> the first submission to CRAN a month ago. The current version of the
>>> package is 1.1.1. Could this be the reason for the problem?
>>>
>>> Do you have an idea how to progress with the testing or how to locate
>>> the errors? Any help is welcome.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>        Wolfgang Lenhard
>>>
>>>
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