[R-pkg-devel] Check package without suggests

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Hello,

this is *not* a new behavior on CRAN, at least on (re-)submissions to
CRAN.  The package has to pass R CMD check --as-cran with all OK. If
one of the Suggests:ed package is not installed, but one of your
examples or package tests needed it, that would be detected by the
check system.

The win-builder service is will detect this
(https://win-builder.r-project.org/).

See <https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/port4me/blob/develop/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml>
for an example how to do this on GitHub Actions.

If you're on macOS, and have installed R the default way, it takes
more work to test on that platform. It works out of the box on Linux
and MS Windows.  See the '[R-SIG-Mac] CRAN installer for macOS -
directory permissions' thread started in April 2022
<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2022-April/014371.html>,
continued in May 2022
<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2022-May/thread.html>, and
June 2022 <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2022-June/014469.html>.
It was then renamed to 'System-wide site library [Was: CRAN installer
for macOS - directory permissions]' in June 2022
<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2022-June/014501.html>.

/Henrik

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 8:07 PM William Gearty <willgearty using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> You need to set the R CMD check environment variable
> _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ to FALSE/0. You should be able to do this
> with the env_vars
> argument in rhub::check(). You can also achieve this with github actions by
> customizing your yaml file (example here:
> https://github.com/willgearty/deeptime/blob/master/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml#L57
> ).
>
> Best,
> Will
>
> ------------------------------
> *William Gearty*
> *Lerner-Gray Postdoctoral Research Fellow*
> Division of Paleontology
> American Museum of Natural History
> williamgearty.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 10:38 AM John Harrold <john.m.harrold using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Howdy Folks,
> >
> > I recent had a package start failing because I wasn't checking properly in
> > my tests to make sure my suggested packages were installed before running
> > tests. I think this is something new running on CRAN where packages are
> > tested with only the packages specified as Imports in the DESCRIPTION file
> > are installed. It took me a bit of back and forth to get all of these
> > issues worked out.  I was wondering if anyone has a good way to run R CMD
> > check with only the imports installed?  A github action, or a
> > specific platform on rhub?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > John
> > :wq
> >
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