[R-pkg-devel] 'rlang' win-builder error for package without rlang dependency

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12/09/2021 5:09 p.m., Sebastian Meyer wrote:
> Am 12.09.21 um 19:25 schrieb Konrad Rudolph:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My recent CRAN package submission failed with a win-builder error during
>> the tests and vignette building *of the previously submitted version* [1]:
>>
>> ```
>>       Error in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib) :
>>         DLL 'rlang' not found: maybe not installed for this architecture?
>> ```
>>
>> (The log also shows another testing error with the new version which I can
>> make neither heads nor tails of, but that’s a separate issue.)
>>
>> My package does not directly depend on 'rlang' (though it is a transitive
>> 'Suggests' (build time) dependency via 'testthat'). I’m at a loss how to
>> fix this issue. The closest I could find was [2], where the error is caused
>> by tests being run for a mismatching architecture. In my case, the error
>> seems to be caused by 'testthat' not being able to load the rlang DLL for
>> x64 (weirdly the tests run to completion for the [mismatching] i386
>> architecture). Given that I don’t control (a) which architecture is tested
>> on win-builder, nor (b) how 'testthat' loads its dependencies, how can I
>> fix this?
>>
>> … or was this error included in the win-builder output of the new
>> submission as a simple FYI and can be safely ignored?
> 
> Yes, the current CRAN status of the package is appended just FYI / for
> comparison.
> 
> These appended check results in the Debian pre-test output regularly
> confuse package developers. I am suggesting (to R-core) to simply add

Sebastian:  R-core isn't involved in this.  CRAN is a separate group.

Duncan Murdoch

> more empty lines before "current CRAN status" and maybe it should also
> say something like "(for comparison)" to clarify that these results are
> not the reason for the failure of the automatic pretest.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 	Sebastian Meyer
> 
>>
>> [1]
>> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/box_1.0.3_20210912_125241/Debian/00check.log
>> [2] https://github.com/r-hub/rhub/issues/476
>>
>> --
>> Konrad Rudolph // @klmr
>>
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