[R-pkg-devel] Current recommendations re. GitHub Action?

[Spencer Graves]

On 1/2/23 12:38 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> As the error is common against your _all three_ of your Ubuntu runs, you
> could consider the possibility that the events are correlated.  Most often it
> simply means a (temporary, usually) network or server outage.  I would wait,
> and then relaunch (which these days you can do just for the failed jobs).
> 
> It is also worth paying attention to warnings such as
> 
>     Warning: r-lib/actions/setup-r using v1 is deprecated. Please update your
>     workflow to use the 'v2' version. Also look at the examples at
>     https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/v2/examples because '@v2' workflows
>     are much simpler than 'v1' workflows.


	  Thanks to Zhian Kamvar and Dirk Eddelbuettel for encouraging me to 
look at the warning.


	  I replaced a few lined of my "R-CMD-check.yaml" file with the the 
"v3" and "v2" versions in the example in 
"https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/v2/examples" and deleted 
subsequent lines that I didn't understand, and I got an instant failure: 
  It didn't run even one of the 5 tests.  Then I did "git revert" with 
the version number from GitHub and changed several lines to match the 
example with the succeeding yaml code.  GitHub Action ran and failed on 
all 5 platforms.  I did "git revert" with that and changed 
"r-lib/actions/setup-r using v1" to "r-lib/actions/setup-r using v2".  With that, 
R-release ran successfully on Unbuntu as well as Windows and macOS.


	  However, Ubuntu failed with devel and oldrel1, complaining, "there is 
no package called ‘rcmdcheck’".


	  See:


https://github.com/sbgraves237/sos


	  Suggestions?
	  Thanks,
	  Spencer Graves

> 
> Hth,  Dirk
>