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

[Kevin R. Coombes]

Hi Duncan,

Oops; I didn't realize I had forgotten to push updates to the OOMPA web 
site.

The code for Mercator is contained as part of the Thresher project in 
the subversion repository on R-Forge. 
(https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/thresher/) It's under 
pkg/Mercator below that URL

Thanks,
   Kevin

On 11/11/2020 11:30 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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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