[R-pkg-devel] CRAN submission struggle

[Greg Hunt]

Christaan,
The elapsed time note is because CRAN expects that examples will be
configured to run single threaded and some package that you use, or a
package used by a package that you use is multi-threading by default and
using more CPU time than clock time. If you cannot figure out how to
reconfigure the multi-threaded package, a number of people have found that
the simplest thing to do is disable running the example (which reduces the
effective test coverage provided by the example).

I haven’t encountered the miktex exception file before but i suspect its a
side effect of a miktex error. Packages should not leave files behind in
the temp directory. If you expect a miktex error you need to remove the
file. If you don’t you need to track down and fix or work around the bug.
The build process is really a quality check on your package.

Greg

On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 3:01 am, Christiaan Pieterse <
pietie.cjp.1908 using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thank you for showing the difference in the ExampleTradeData. I've fixed
> this by adding a .Gitignore file and a "data-raw" folder to load the
> ExampleTradeData. I hope I did this correctly. When I check the package (
> https://github.com/WoutersResearchGroup/R-IO-PS/tree/CRAN-prep) in
> RStudio.
> I only get 3 notes (see below), and if I run it in PositCloud, it crashes
> or yields the same 1 ERROR and 2 NOTES result as before. Why might this be?
> Is it a problem or is it fine if I continue working in RStudio since I
> cannot increase the specs in PositCloud because I'm working on a research
> group account?
>
> Here are the 3 notes I receive in RStudio:
>
> The first is the expected New Submission Note.
>
> The second is the runtime that is too long:
> * checking examples ... [43s] NOTE
> Examples with CPU (user + system) or elapsed time > 5s
>       user system elapsed
> IOPS 10.06   3.35   35.04
> How can I reduce this time? I'm not sure how to reduce the size of my
> ExampleTradeData without the check giving errors when running the example.
>
> The third note I am unsure what it means:
> * checking for detritus in the temp directory ... NOTE
> Found the following files/directories:
>   'lastMiKTeXException'
>
> Kind regards
> Christiaan
>
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 at 15:55, Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Christiaan,
> >
> > В Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:57:55 +0200
> > Christiaan Pieterse <pietie.cjp.1908 using gmail.com> пишет:
> >
> > > Still, I couldn't figure out why I ran into this problem, so I
> > > created a test file called "Test Example.R" (available at the same
> > > GitHub repository:
> > > https://github.com/WoutersResearchGroup/R-IO-PS/tree/CRAN-prep).
> >
> > I see you're always adding or updating files to the GitHub repo by
> > means of uploading. While that's certainly one way to use GitHub, it's
> > combines the least convenient aspects of two approaches to using GitHub.
> >
> > With GitHub purely in the browser, GitHub is just a website where you
> > keep and edit code, running nothing else on the local computer. Code
> > can be run in Codespaces or using GitHub Actions. Microsoft will want
> > to be paid money to run code on their computers.
> >
> > With GitHub as a Git remote, there is a local checkout [*] that's kept
> > in sync with GitHub by means of commits [**] and pushes [***], letting
> > you create meaningful, describable snapshots of changes in your code
> > spanning multiple files at the same time.
> >
> > Right now, it probably feels like Dropbox but worse.
> >
> > > This file creates the function in the global environment (note that
> > > this is the same function code as available in the package
> > > "R/iopspackage2.0.R" file), and then runs this function with the same
> > > example as in the package (If you want to try this yourself, just
> > > load the data/ExampleTradeData.rda in before running the Test Example
> > > file). This test file yields no errors when I run it and produces the
> > > correct results. When I then proceed to build and check the package,
> > > it yields the same example error as before. I do not understand why
> > > or what could cause this issue.
> >
> > The difference is in the ExampleTradeData variable, which "Test
> > Example.R" doesn't define.
> >
> > With data(ExampleTradeData), the script works.
> >
> > With ExampleTradeData <-
> >
> >
> read.csv(system.file("extdata","ExampleTradeData.csv",package="iopspackage")),
> > the script fails exactly the same way as example(IOPS) does.
> >
> > > I'm not sure if I should send out another email to the developers to
> > > see if someone else spots something I'm not seeing.
> >
> > It may help to keep Cc: r-package-devel using r-project.org in the e-mails
> > for the search engines to index the potential solutions in the mailing
> > list archives.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Ivan
> >
> > [*]
> > https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Getting-a-Git-Repository
> >
> > [**]
> >
> >
> https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository
> >
> > [***]
> > https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Working-with-Remotes
> >
>
>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-package-devel using r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
>

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]