[R-pkg-devel] checking CRAN incoming feasibility

[Simon Urbanek]

Ralf,

that check always hangs for me (I don't think it likes NZ ;)), so I just use

_R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_REMOTE_=0 R CMD check --as-cran ...

Cheers,
Simon


> On Jan 16, 2024, at 6:49 PM, Rolf Turner <rolfturner using posteo.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:24:59 +1100
> Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parsonage using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Surely the software just has to check
>> that there is web connection to a CRAN mirror.
>> 
>> Nope! The full code is in tools:::.check_package_CRAN_incoming  (the
>> body of which filled up my entire console), but to name a few checks
>> it has to do: check that the name of the package is not the same as
>> any other, including archived packages (which means that it has to
>> download the package metadata), make sure the licence is ok, see if
>> the version number is ok. 10 minutes is quite a lot though. I suspect
>> the initial connection may have been faulty.
> 
> Well, it may not have been 10 minutes, but it was at least 5.  The
> problem is persistent/repeatable.  I don't believe that there is any
> faulty connection.
> 
> Thanks for the insight.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
> 
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