[R-pkg-devel] Testing on old R versions

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 6:52 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 31/01/2021 12:35 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > On 31/01/2021 10:57 a.m., Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> >> Do you actually experience any problems, if you don't treat this case specially?
> >
> > Yes, what was happening was that remotes::install_deps skipped
> > installing rgl from CRAN because the local copy had a later version
> > number.  Sorry, I deleted most of the runs that had failures in them, so
> > I can't quote the exact message about this.
>
> I just re-ran a version of the old one.  I'm caching package builds, so
> now I get alphashape3d anyway, but in case you're interested, the
> message was:
>
>   Skipping 1 packages ahead of CRAN: rgl

Right. This is probably because in some iteration you installed the
local (dev) rgl into the library that is cached.
It should still be harmless, because `R CMD check` uses the (new)
local package for the check. The old cached version is only used for
installing alphashape3d and other suggested packages that import or
depend on rgl.

In any case, `remotes::install_local()` seems to be the safest way to
go about this currently.

Gabor


> Duncan Murdoch
>
> >
> >>
> >> AFAIR, in most cases this is not a problem in practice. remotes might
> >> install the CRAN version of rgl as the dependency of alphashape3d, but
> >> `R CMD check` will install and use the local copy of the rgl package
> >> for the check, anyway, so that does not matter much.
> >>
> >> More precisely, it would only matter if alphashape3d had some install
> >> time dependency on rgl, because at install time, it will use the CRAN
> >> rgl version. But this is pretty rare I think.
> >>
> >> If you still want to fix this, you can replace
> >> `remotes::install_deps()` with `remotes::install_local()` and then
> >> remotes will install the local package as well, not only its
> >> dependencies.
> >
> > I'll try that.
> >
> > Duncan
> >
> >>
> >> Gabor
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 11:32 AM Duncan Murdoch
> >> <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I am trying out a modified version of the tidyverse actions, and it does
> >>> seem to be going well.  Just one question:
> >>>
> >>> rgl has a soft dependency on alphashape3d, and alphashape3d has a hard
> >>> dependency on rgl.  This means that I need to install in the order
> >>>
> >>>      rgl hard dependencies
> >>>      rgl
> >>>      rgl soft dependencies
> >>>
> >>> Currently I'm using this code to do that:
> >>>
> >>>      # First install rgl with minimal deps then the rest
> >>>      devtools::install()
> >>>      remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
> >>>
> >>> but devtools seems unnecessarily heavy for this.  Does remotes have a
> >>> way to specify the install in the right order?
> >>>
> >>> Duncan Murdoch
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 29/01/2021 2:26 p.m., Hadley Wickham wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 6:27 PM Henrik Bengtsson
> >>>> <henrik.bengtsson using gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> you're probably already aware of it, but 'rgl' depends on 'magrittr'
> >>>>> which depends on 'rlang', and the latter requires R (>= 3.3.0).
> >>>>
> >>>> For the reference, we support R-release, R-devel, and the last four
> >>>> versions of R:
> >>>> https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2019/04/r-version-support/.
> >>>>
> >>>> We automatically run checks on all these R versions using GitHub
> >>>> actions. You can use the same config as us by running
> >>>> usethis::use_tidy_github_actions(). If you're already using GitHub,
> >>>> I'm pretty confident that this is the fastest/easiest way to check
> >>>> with older versions of R.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hadley
> >>>>
> >>>
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