[R-pkg-devel] winOS devel failure "knitr not available" on resubmit

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 30/11/2019 9:05 a.m., Yoni wrote:
> Thank you for the advice.
> 
> I resubmitted to win-devel 20 minutes ago (0840 EST) and that error 
> seems to be persisting.
> 
> https://win-builder.r-project.org/Htqi1hmm4O20/00check.log
> 
> here is the link to the full DESCRIPTION file
> 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yonicd/ripe/master/DESCRIPTION

It looks like a problem on win-builder.  I don't think there's anything 
you can do but wait for it to be fixed.

> 
> That is the same system that CRAN checks for winOS will use?

I don't know, but I'd expect so.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Thank you
> 
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 8:29 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com 
> <mailto:murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 30/11/2019 7:02 a.m., Yoni wrote:
>      > I have recently resubmitted a package after fixing an issue with the
>      > license. The package passed all the checks a few days prior and
>     on this
>      > resubmit the winOS failed with a message that I am not sure how
>     to resolve.
>      >
>      > * checking package dependencies ... ERROR
>      > Package suggested but not available for checking:
>      > 'knitr'VignetteBuilder package required for checking but not
>      > installed: 'knitr'
>      >
>      >
>     https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/ripe_0.1.0_20191130_120421/Windows/00check.log
>      >
>      > The DESCRIPTION file seems to contain the correct Imports and
>     Suggests
>      > that have not raised issues up until this point on checks.Depends: R
>      > (>= 3.5.0)
>      >
>      > Imports: magrittrSuggests:
>      >   testthat,
>      >   knitr,
>      >   rmarkdown,
>      >   purrr,
>      >   parallel,
>      >   dplyr,
>      >   covr
>      > VignetteBuilder: knitr
>      >
> 
>     Assuming the joined lines "Imports: magrittrSuggests:" are just in your
>     email, not in the DESCRIPTION file (you used HTML, which generally gets
>     mangled here), that's likely a transient error on the test system.  I
>     would resubmit.
> 
>     Duncan Murdoch
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Yoni
> 
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