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

[Klaus Schliep]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 1:13 PM David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjones using gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>


Have you tested your package on https://builder.r-hub.io/ or
https://win-builder.r-project.org/ ?

>
> 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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