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

[Duncan Murdoch]

XQuartz has offered users an upgrade from version 2.7.11 to 2.8.0.  The 
betas of the upgrade were causing anything X11 related to hang (rgl 
users reported it to me), and backing out to 2.7.11 didn't necessarily 
fix it.  I haven't tried the recently offered release candidate, but I 
would suspect it will cause trouble with any package compiled against 
2.7.11, as the macOS binaries on CRAN likely are.

If reinstalling 2.7.11 doesn't fix it, you may need to remove some 2.8.0 
leftovers, as described here:


https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2021-February/013952.html


Duncan Murdoch




On 26/02/2021 1:55 p.m., Jim Hester 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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