[R-pkg-devel] Additional CRAN Checks

[Colin Gillespie]

))> Exactly what errors do you think you found? It is not an error for
a package to be compatible with a range of versions of R.

I suspect that the author didn't mean to specify 7 versions of R
(https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/NGSSEML/) under Depends.

When a package specifies R >= 2.01 did they mean R 2.0.1 or R 2.1.0
(https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/diagram/)

Or specifying R >= 2.16 (which doesn't exist) -
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/seqDesign/

I realise that the above aren't "errors", but they do strongly
indicate that the package author is making a mistake.

Thanks

Colin



>
> On September 6, 2021 4:02:08 AM PDT, Colin Gillespie <csgillespie using gmail.com> wrote:
> >Dear All,
> >
> >Sorry if this is the wrong mailing address.
> >
> >I was doing a little investigation of R versions in packages and
> >discovered a number of errors:
> >
> >https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bartCause/index.html  - R (≥ 3.1-0)
> >https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/activityGCMM/index.html  - R (3.00)
> >https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/deTestSet/index.html - R (≥ 2.01)
> >
> >and also
> >
> >https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/NGSSEML/ - R (≥ 1.9.0), R (≥
> >3.5.0), R (≥ 3.5.0), R (≥ 3.5.0), R (≥ 3.5.0), R (≥ 3.5.0), R (≥
> >3.5.0)
> >
> >Overall I detected ~40 packages with issues:
> >
> >c("activityGCMM", "behavr", "bioassays", "bvpSolve", "celestial",
> >"chest", "CRTSize", "csppData", "damr", "deTestSet", "diagram",
> >"directPA", "DiscreteFDR", "ecolMod", "ecp", "epibasix", "europepmc",
> >"fabisearch", "FDX", "ggetho", "hyper.fit", "MedSurvey", "NBPSeq",
> >"NetIndices", "NFWdist", "OmegaG", "primer", "RATest", "refund",
> >"RmarineHeatWaves", "rmcfs", "rootSolve", "RPPASPACE", "scopr",
> >"scoringRules", "seqDesign", "shape", "sleepr", "SMPracticals",
> >"text", "tggd", "zeitgebr")
> >
> >It seems like this would be a useful check to implement on the R CMD check.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Colin
> >
> >
> >Dr Colin Gillespie
> >https://twitter.com/csgillespie
> >
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