[R-pkg-devel] checking CRAN incoming feasibility

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 17 January 2024 at 09:42, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| 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 ...

You can also set it in Renviron files consulted just for checks:

  $ grep INCOMING_= ~/.R/check.Renviron*
  /home/edd/.R/check.Renviron:_R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_=FALSE
  /home/edd/.R/check.Renviron-Rdevel:_R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_=TRUE
  $ 

Best, Dirk

| 
| 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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