[R-pkg-devel] help interpreting a response from CRAN

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 November 2020 at 13:44, Ben Bolker wrote:
|    My current guess is that the problem is with the too-long check time on Windows (NOTE: "Overall checktime 18 min > 10 min")

Yes.
 
|   I guess I have to get busy setting more tests and examples to skip-on-CRAN (kind of a pain as there's no low-hanging fruit - other than the 'testthat' tests, none of the individual test files take longer than 15sec, although this is doubled because they have to be run on 386 and x64 ...)

It's under your control. You can detect 'are we on Windows' and branch or, as
I do with test runner I use, exit_file("...") based on such conditions.

|   An alternative is that this is a confusingly worded message indicating that there are strong rev dependencies so the package needs to be further checked? (That seems unlikely as it explicitly asks me to resubmit)

No. If there were any (even false positive ones) they'd be listed there.

Hth, Dirk

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