[R-pkg-devel] New CRAN checks on r-devel-windows-x86_64-new-UL and the installed fonts

[Hiroaki Yutani]

> This would be an empty character vector on my Alpine Linux server as
> well.

I see, thanks for the information. Sorry for my lack of consideration on this.

> So there are 127 *.ttf files installed, but systemfonts::system_fonts()
> does not find any of these.

Thanks for investigating quickly! Then, it seems I should wait for the
problem to be solved on systemfonts' side. I'm curious what's the
difference between r-devel-windows-x86_64-new-TK, on which the check
doesn't fail, by the way.

Best,
Hiroaki Yutani

2021年12月16日(木) 23:57 Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>
>
>
> On 16.12.2021 15:34, Sebastian Meyer wrote:
> > Am 16.12.21 um 15:06 schrieb Hiroaki Yutani:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> My package is failing on CRAN check on r-devel-windows-x86_64-new-UL.
> >>
> >> https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_string2path.html
> >>
> >> It seems the problem is that there is no available font that meets the
> >> condition in the following code. Is it irrational to assume at least
> >> one TrueType or OpenType font is installed in the system?
> >>
> >>      available_fonts <- systemfonts::system_fonts()$path
> >>
> >>      # string2path supports only TrueType or OpenType formats
> >>      ttf_or_otf <- available_fonts[grepl("\\.(ttf|otf)$",
> >> available_fonts)]
> >>
>
> The machine that is running " r-devel-windows-x86_64-new-UL" is a
> freshly installed Windows Server 2022 with GUI. The standard fonts are
> available, but no extra fonts isntalled.
>
> To confirm:
>
>  > table(gsub(".*\\.(.{3})$", "\\1", dir("c:/WIndows/fonts")))
>
> dat fon ini ttc ttf xml
>    1 192   1  16 127   1
>
>
> So there are 127 *.ttf files installed, but systemfonts::system_fonts()
> does not find any of these.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
>
> > This would be an empty character vector on my Alpine Linux server as
> > well. The system_fonts() there only contain ".pcf.gz" files from
> > "/usr/share/fonts/misc/".
> >
> > Note that the "systemfonts" package on which you rely currently also
> > fails on that CRAN check flavour for a similar reason
> > (https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_systemfonts.html).
> > On my Alpine Linux system, from example("register_font",
> > package="systemfonts"):
> >
> > fonts <- system_fonts()
> > plain <- sample(which(!fonts$italic & fonts$weight <= 'normal'), 1)
> > bold <- sample(which(!fonts$italic & fonts$weight > 'normal'), 1)
> > italic <- sample(which(fonts$italic & fonts$weight <= 'normal'), 1)
> > ## Error in sample.int(length(x), size, replace, prob) :
> > ##   invalid first argument
> >
> > (as there are no italic fonts).
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> >      Sebastian Meyer
> >
> >> I'm wondering if I need to release a new version to avoid this test
> >> failure. Note that, the other Windows r-devel machine
> >> (r-devel-windows-x86_64-new-TK) doesn't fail. So, it might be just
> >> that something is wrong with r-devel-windows-x86_64-new-UL.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Hiroaki Yutani
> >>
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