[R-pkg-devel] Strange error from CRAN on package submission
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Wed Nov 11 17:30:50 CET 2020
Uwe suggested you suggest flexmix, but I see below you already tried that.
I'd like to take a look, but I can't find your package. The existing
version on CRAN gives the URL as http://oompa.r-forge.r-project.org/,
but I can't see it mentioned there.
Duncan Murdoch
On 11/11/2020 8:44 a.m., 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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