[R-pkg-devel] How to debug CRAN errors?

[David Hugh-Jones]

Hi Bill,

I take your point. Meanwhile, though, is there any way to debug the
problem? I’ll assume that making repeated uploads to CRAN is not a viable
approach.... it would be great if there were a Docker image of their setup
available, for example.

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 17:00, William Dunlap <wdunlap using tibco.com> wrote:

> The complaint
>
> > test_check("huxtable")
>      -- 1. Failure: Data written in appropriate format
> (@test-openxlsx.R#101) ------
>      `openxlsx::saveWorkbook(wb, file = "test-xlsx.xlsx", overwrite =
> TRUE)` produced messages.
>
> comes from your call to testthat::expect_silent()
>
> test_that("Data written in appropriate format", {
>   hx <- huxtable(a = 1:2 + 0.5, b = -1:-2 + 0.5, d = letters[1:2],
> add_colnames = TRUE)
>   wb <- as_Workbook(hx)
>   expect_silent(openxlsx::saveWorkbook(wb, file = "test-xlsx.xlsx",
> overwrite = TRUE))
>
>
> Perhaps you should suggest to the authors of testthat that it would be
> nice if expect_silent() showed some of the text of the messages, etc.,
> instead of just saying that messages were produced.
>
> By the way, I think your test test should write to a file in [a
> subdirectory of]] tempdir(), not to a file in the current directory.
>
> comes from
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 8:50 AM David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjones using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My package has errors on CRAN's Linux and Solaris:
> >
> > https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_huxtable.html
> >
> > which I can't reproduce on my local OSX Machine, nor on Linux on Travis.
> >
> > Does anyone have any general hints on how to reproduce and/or debug such
> > errors?
> >
> > Specifically the error relates to a call to openxlsx::saveWorkbook
> > producing a message. openxlsx hasn't changed recently, though.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > David
> >
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