[R-pkg-devel] Building Windoze packages using rhub.

[Gábor Csárdi]

Thanks for the great walk-through!

For reference, if you want to know more about R-hub, this is the
documentation: https://docs.r-hub.io/

Best,
Gabor

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 4:22 AM Rolf Turner <r.turner using auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>
> Recently I complained about the fact that it was taking forever for
> packages to come back to me from the winbuilder facility that Uwe Ligges
> so kindly provides.
>
> Ben Bolker suggested that I use "rhub" instead.  I responded that I'd
> *heard* of rhub but had no real idea what it was nor how to use it.  Roy
> Mendelssohn chimed in with "Download the 'rhub' package.  Then
> submission to 'rhub' is one easy command."
>
> Well, "Hah!" I say to that!!! :-) Easy perhaps if you are not a Bear of
> Very Little Brain, as I am.  However it seems to be do-able, even for a
> Bear of Very Little Brain, and I managed (I think!!!) to get it to work.
>
> Since I found the procedure a bit opaque, I thought I would set out step
> by step instructions, that perhaps others might find useful.
>
> (1) Install rhub. E.g. in R issue the command
>
>        install.packages("rhub",lib=<whatever>)
>
> (2) Load rhub:  library(rhub)
>
> (3) Validate your email address: validate_email()
>
> You get prompted for an email address, and then asked for a verification
> code.  That code gets emailed to you; copy and paste it in and you're
> good to go.
>
> (4) Then (and this is one of the things that foxed me) you invoke the
> *check()* function from the rhub package.  (For the love of Pete, I
> don't want to check the <expletive deleted> package, I want to *build*
> it!!!  But never mind.)  The simplest thing to do is to make sure your
> working directory is that in which the source package lives.  Then issue
> the command
>
>     xxx <- check("blah_1.1-1.tar.gz",platform="windows-x86_64-release")
>
> where of course "blah_1.1-1.tar.gz" is the name of the tarball holding
> your source package.
>
> Wait a while --- the function keeps you pretty well informed of what
> it's doing.
>
> Finally it completes, and you see that xxx is an object of class
> "rhub_check" "R6" that prints as:
>
> > ── blah 1.1-1: OK
> >
> >   Build ID:   blah_1.1-1.tar.gz-3b30749f06644fd4833d02da6ec895fb
> >   Platform:   Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, R-release, 32/64 bit
> >   Submitted:  3h 56m 39.3s ago
> >   Build time: 11m 54.2s
> >
> > 0 errors ✔ | 0 warnings ✔ | 0 notes ✔
>
> (5) Now what?  Here's where I really got foxed.  I want a Windoze
> binary.  Where the <expletive deleted> is it?
>
> Then I noticed that I'd got an email.  It was headed "blah 1.1-1 OK" and
> contained essentially the same material as did xxx.  But it also had:
>
> > See the full build log: HTML, text, artifacts.
>
> This did not look at all promising; I did not want the <expletive
> deleted> build log, nor any "artefacts", but I clicked on "artefacts"
> out of curiosity.  And *this*, mirabile dictu, took me to a page from
> which I could download blah_1.1-1.zip, and this was indeed the required
> Windoze binary.
>
> Ta-da!!!  Victory.  I hope that those who are as mentally handicapped as
> I am find the foregoing useful.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>
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