[R-pkg-devel] Transient (?) error on r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64

[Helmut Schütz]

Dear Duncan,

Duncan Murdoch wrote on 2021-05-17 13:17:
> On 17/05/2021 5:35 a.m., Helmut Schütz wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm facing an error:
>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_replicateBE.html
>>
>> As usual the link on the bottom of
>> https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64/replicateBE-00check.html 
>>
>> is not helpful because it leads to an empty page.
>>
>> No errors/warnings were thrown in the pre-check on winbuilder.
>> If I try it again, I get - as expected - a warning "Insufficient package
>> version (submitted: 1.0.17, existing: 1.0.17)" but again no error.
>>
>> Are these different machines / installations? Is this error transient or
>> - if not - what can I do?
>
> I don't see an empty page, I see an explanation for the problem:
>
> Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), 
> versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
>   there is no package called 'lme4'
> Calls: <Anonymous> ... loadNamespace -> withRestarts -> withOneRestart 
> -> doWithOneRestart
> Execution halted
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'replicateBE'
>
> If you look at the lme4 page, you'll see it succeeded, so this was 
> probably a transient error while it was being rebuilt.

I see. I'm not importing lme4 _directly_ - it is a dependency of lmerTest.

> If you see nothing "as usual", there may be a problem at your end 
> stopping you from downloading the info.

Oh dear, Chrome was over-cautious...

Helmut

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