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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 13/03/2019 8:34 p.m., David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> 
> Hi guys
> 
> That might be it. But there was no error until the latest release - 
> whereas that test has been there for 9 months. The file is written 
> within testthat... is there a new check for this in CRAN?
> 
> Meanwhile, I am still figuring out how to debug this problem. I uploaded 
> to r-hub... does anyone know how I can access the artifacts created 
> after the build? The URL build was
> 
> https://builder.r-hub.io/status/huxtable_4.4.0.tar.gz-b91485ad24b7a2f9c73bad2d51ebdb9d

You should have got an email giving the link.  In the ones I've seen, 
you replace the prefix

https://builder.r-hub.io/status/

with

https://artifacts.r-hub.io/

and you'll see them.  It works for yours.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
>      > 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.
> 
>     That could be the source of the error:  it's a violation of CRAN policy
>     to write to the current directory.  An obvious way to test this
>     would be
>     to make it unwriteable.
> 
>     Duncan Murdoch
> 
>      >
>      > comes from
>      > Bill Dunlap
>      > TIBCO Software
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>      >
>      >
>      > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 8:50 AM David Hugh-Jones
>     <davidhughjones using gmail.com <mailto: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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