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

[David Hugh-Jones]

Thanks to Maëlle for getting me fixed up with r-hub, which is looking quite
slick.

I debugged the problem and it comes down to the R tinytex package not
playing nicely with Debian’s texlive installation.

I  think the answer is just to turn off all relevant tests on CRAN. It’s
reasonable for them to use texlive, and reasonable for Yihui to not want to
support it; meanwhile Travis etc still run the tests.

Thanks for your help, everyone!

David


On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 12:50, Maëlle SALMON <maelle.salmon using yahoo.se> wrote:

> To follow up on the great answers regarding R-hub,
> - to use R-hub Linux Docker images you can use this brand-new rhub
> function https://r-hub.github.io/rhub/reference/local_check_linux.html
> (untested on Windows)
> - here's WIP R-hub docs entry about choosing a platform to reproduce an
> error https://docs.r-hub.io/#rhub-cran-platforms
>
> Maëlle.
>
>
>
>
> Den torsdag 14 mars 2019 08:48:34 CET, David Hugh-Jones <
> davidhughjones using gmail.com> skrev:
>
>
> Thank you! Got it. This should be close enough to CRAN, and there’s a
> Docker image available too.
>
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 00:40, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >      > wdunlap tibco.com <http://tibco.com>
> > >      >
> > >      >
> > >      > 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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