[R-pkg-devel] WARNING: A complete check needs the 'checkbashisms' script.

[brian knaus]

Thank you again for your responses Rodrigo Tobar. I'm happy to call this a
solution. I've got some testing to do but I'm hoping to get this sent back
to CRAN soon.

Thank you for your help!
Brian

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:28 PM Rodrigo Tobar <rtobar using icrar.org> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> On 12/8/20 10:21 am, brian knaus wrote:
> > [...] It sounds like I can assume that CRAN machines will have
> > ```checkbashisms``` installed where necessary
>
> That's my reading, yes.
>
> > and handle this appropriately when not?
>
> I don't think you need to handle this at all. As you experimented,
> simply removing your otherwise empty configure script should suffice.
>
> > And that users will not try to use R CMD check
> > --as-cran?
>
> Note that by default (i.e., without --as-cran) the check is not
> included. The documentation for _R_CHECK_BASHISMS_ reads "... Default:
> false (but true for CRAN submission checks except on Windows).". Adding
> --as-cran effectively turns that check on.
>
> Having said that, users can still run checks with --as-cran, but they
> would need to be aware that it requires certain infrastructure to run
> those checks. That's true for all packages though, not only yours, so I
> don't think you need to specially worry about it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rodrigo
>

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