[R-pkg-devel] Strange error from CRAN on package submission

[Uwe Ligges]

You have to suggest flexmix.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 11.11.2020 14:44, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to figure out how to fix warnings from two of the CRAN
> machines on the submission of an update to a package. The only change to
> my package was to add a "show" method to one of the S4 classes, which
> was requested by a reviewer of the paper we submitted. The inability to
> get this updated package into CRAN  is the only thing holding up the
> revision (and probable acceptance) of the manuscript.
> 
> The same "warnings"s were found in the previous version. The package is
> called Mercator, and the CRAN check results from the  last version are here:
>     https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_Mercator.html
> 
> I get warnings from the two fedora machine instances (clang and gcc).
> They both report
> 
>> Check: whether package can be  installed.
>> Result: WARN
>>       Found the following significant  warnings:
>>       Warning: namespace ‘flexmix’ is  not available and has been replaced
>   >
>   > Check: data for non-ASCII characters
>> Result: WARN
>>        Warning: namespace 'flexmix'  is not available and has been replaced
>>        by .GlobalEnv when processing  object '<unknown>'
> 
> The relationships in the DESCRIPTION files are:
> 
> 1. Mercator depends on Thresher
> 2. Thresher imports moVMF
> 3. moMVF suggests flexmix
> 
> On my Windows machine, the package builds and installs with no errors or
> warnings even if flexmix is not available (which I believe to be the
> correct behavior). On R-Forge, both the Windows and LINUX versions build
> and install with no errors or warnings. On R-Hub, tested on multiple
> LINUX versions, the package builds and installs with no errors or warnings.
> 
> And flexmix is still clearly available from CRAN:
>     https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/flexmix/index.html
> 
> In the latest attempt to get things to work, I added
>     Suggests: flexmix
> into the DESCRIPTION file for Mercator, but this didn't help fix the
> problem on CRAN.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to fix this problem (other than moan here on
> this list and hope that CRAN can just install flexmix on those machines)?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>     Kevin
> 
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