[R-pkg-devel] R package check stuck on “checking use of S3 registration …”

[Evan Biederstedt]

Hi Jim



*""">  if so removing and reinstalling XQuartz may fix the issue."""*

You might be onto something here. I did this last week, and haven't had the
issue since.

I never did find out what's going on fwiw.

Best, Evan

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 1:56 PM Jim Hester <james.f.hester using gmail.com> wrote:

> I have recently been having this same issue and traced it to a hang when
> loading the tcltk package. The 'checking use of S3 registration' part of
> the check loads all the base and recommended packages and for some reason
> the tcltk package was hanging during loading on my machine (macOS 11.2.1).
>
> I would try to load tcltk and see if this is the case for you, if so
> removing and reinstalling XQuartz may fix the issue.
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:20 AM Evan Biederstedt <
> evan.biederstedt using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> Creating an R package here which I plan to upload to CRAN. Upon checking
>> the tarball created with `R CMD BUILD`, I try to use `R CMD CHECK` as
>> follows:
>>
>> ```
>> R CMD CHECK my_package.tar.gz --as-cran
>> ```
>>
>> This normally works smoothly. However, in this case, it is stuck on
>> `checking use of S3 registration` and has been there for several hours.
>> I've never experienced this before; here's the partial output I see:
>>
>>
>> ```
>> ...
>>  * checking package subdirectories ... OK
>>  * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
>>  * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
>>  * checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
>>  * checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ...
>> OK
>>  * checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
>>  * checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies
>> ... OK
>>  * checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
>>  * checking use of S3 registration ...
>>  ```
>>
>> (1) What does `checking use of S3 registration` really mean?
>>
>> (2) More importantly, why could it be stuck here? How could I fix this
>> issue?
>>
>> Any insight or help greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>>
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