[R-pkg-devel] Updating package with a dependency (rJava) that doesn't build on all flavours

[Tomas Kalibera]

On 11/13/19 10:19 AM, Tomáš Kliegr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This question has not stirred much discussion ... If this is the wrong place to ask,  I was wondering if some one point me to where I should ask, or who to approach?  If I understand this issue correctly, it does not affect only my package, but also the maintainers of 50+ other packages that depend on rJava when they will try to update the package.
>
> So far I tried putting the explanation to the comment field when submitting the update, and I also tried emailing CRAN-submissions using r-project.org, but that was also without response so far.

This is probably a temporary Java installation problem on a CRAN Windows 
machine, CRAN-submissions using r-project.org is the right place to report 
this, please be patient.

Thanks
Tomas

>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> Tomas
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> Odesláno: pondělí 11. listopadu 2019 11:09
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> Předmět: [R-pkg-devel] Updating package with a dependency (rJava) that doesn't build on all flavours
>
> Hi,
>
> I maintain a package in CRAN, for which I am struggling to push the latest updates.
>
> The problem is as follows:
> My package passes tests without error or notice on all flavors but one, where the install fails due to an installation error of a dependency package (package rJava on r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64). This installation error was already there in the past submissions of my package to CRAN, and was not previously considered as a blocker to the package (or its updates) being accepted (Current CRAN status: ERROR: 1, OK: 10)
>
> Now, the package updates are automatically rejected:
>
> xxxx
>
> package qCBA_0.4.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically, please see the following pre-tests:
> Windows: <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/qCBA_0.4_20191108_100822/Windows/00check.log>
> Status: 1 ERROR
> Debian: <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/qCBA_0.4_20191108_100822/Debian/00check.log>
> Status: OK
>
> xxxx
>
> I cannot fix the problem with the dependency (rJava), and I also cannot remove rJava from my package.
>
> More details:
> Installation of  rJava package fails on 32-bit Windows, as can be seen here:
> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/qCBA_0.4_20191106_094406/Windows/00install.out ("keine zul�ssige Win32-Anwendung" error)
> This problem seems to apply generally to the rJava package, not just to its use in my package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rJava.html.
>
> I've also described this in the "Optional comment" field.
>
> Any help is appreciated,
>
> Tomas
>
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