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

[Trent McDonald]

 Emailing with final resolution of this topic.  I resubmitted the same
version and it passed pre-checks and reverse depends and is on its way to
CRAN.   Thank you all for your attention here, and for all you do for the R
community. Your work does not go unnoticed.

*Trent McDonald*
* Senior Statistician*

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:33 AM Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

> Actually we had the Windows platform for incomign tests on
> stringsAsFactors = TRUE
> for checking back compatibility to older versions of R, but this is no
> longer possible for new versions of R-devel.
>
> Can you pls simply resubmit the same version?
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
> On 31.03.2020 03:07, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > 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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