[R-pkg-devel] Failing incoming tests on 'stringsAsFactors = TRUE'

[Duncan Murdoch]

The warning about stringsAsFactors is very new; I don't think it's even 
mentioned in the NEWS, though the help ?data.frame mentions it.

So I suspect either the Windows build happened in the middle of 
committing code to implement the warning, and it wasn't all tested yet, 
or some package you depend on sets options(stringsAsFactors = TRUE). 
I'd try submitting your package to Win-builder R-devel and see if it 
still finds that issue.

(Instructions are here:  https://win-builder.r-project.org/).

Duncan Murdoch



On 30/03/2020 6:42 p.m., Trent McDonald wrote:
> Trying to update a package on CRAN.  It passes all the following tests:
> Local (r CMD --as-cran, R 3.6.2), devtools::check_win_dev,
> devtools::check_rhub, and my personal .yml file on travis-ci.org   But, the
> incoming CRAN tests last week for windows fail (linux test throw different
> warning that I can fix).  This is the log file:
> 
> * using log directory 'd:/RCompile/CRANincoming/R-devel/SDraw.Rcheck'
> * using R version 4.0.0 alpha (2020-03-26 r78078)
> * using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit)
> * using session charset: ISO8859-1
> * checking for file 'SDraw/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * checking extension type ... Package
> * this is package 'SDraw' version '2.1.10'
> * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... Note_to_CRAN_maintainers
> Maintainer: 'Trent McDonald <tmcdonald using west-inc.com>'
> * checking package namespace information ... OK
> 
> --- snip ---- multiple checks, all OK
> 
> * checking 'build' directory ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... WARNING
> Warning message:
> In options(stringsAsFactors = TRUE) :
>    'options(stringsAsFactors = TRUE)' is deprecated and will be disabled
>   ERROR
> Warning message:
> In options(stringsAsFactors = TRUE) :
>    'options(stringsAsFactors = TRUE)' is deprecated and will be disabled
> * DONE
> Status: 1 ERROR, 1 WARNING
> 
> Course forward unknown.  Googling unproductive.  I searched the package
> source for the use of 'stringsAsFactors'. I never set the option nor call
> data.frame with it nor read.csv nor use stringsAsFactors anywhere.  In my
> local .Rprofile, I set 'options(stringsAsFactors=FALSE)', but that should
> not matter, correct?  Suggestions?
> 
> My local version is 3.6.2.  Source code link :
> https://github.com/tmcd82070/SDraw
> 
> 
> *Trent McDonald*
> * Senior Statistician*
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