[R-pkg-devel] Package failing reverse dependency checks

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 08/02/2024 4:24 a.m., David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to upload a new version of my "huxtable" package. It is
> currently failing reverse dependency checks for two packages (homnormal and
> RSStest). The relevant failures are below.
> 
> I got this failure one time, and fixed the problem, which relates to
> mistakenly relying on the Suggested: knitr package (see here for the
> commit: https://github.com/hughjonesd/huxtable/commit/5a3edc). After the
> commit, reverse dependency checks for homnormal and RSStest pass on my
> machine, when testing either with revdepcheck::revdep_check or
> tools::check_packages_in_dir, and even when knitr is not installed. But,
> after I uploaded the new package to CRAN, the same failure recurred.
> 
> My new release candidate had the same version number as the previous one
> (which had failed the revdep check, and therefore not been published on
> CRAN). Is it possible that CRAN just tested the old version again?

The CRAN policy on re-submission says "Increasing the version number at 
each submission reduces confusion so is preferred even when a previous 
submission was not accepted."

So yes, I think confusion with the previous submission could have happened.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> If not, then can anyone suggest the best way to debug a revdep check on as
> close a setup to the CRAN machines as possible?
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> Git tag for the last CRAN submission:
> https://github.com/hughjonesd/huxtable/releases/tag/v5.5.4-rc3
> 
> Info from the CRAN email:
> --
> Debian: <
> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/huxtable_5.5.4_20240205_164815/reverseDependencies/summary.txt
>>
> RSStest, homnormal
> 
> Log dir: <
> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/huxtable_5.5.4_20240205_164815/
>>
> The files will be removed after roughly 7 days.
> 
> Pretests:
> Windows: <
> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/huxtable_5.5.4_20240205_164815/Windows/00check.log
>>
> Debian: <
> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/huxtable_5.5.4_20240205_164815/Debian/00check.log
>>
> --
> Changes to worse in reverse depends:
> 
> Package: homnormal
> Check: examples
> New result: ERROR
>    Running examples in ‘homnormal-Ex.R’ failed
>    The error most likely occurred in:
> 
>    > base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
>    > ### Name: Brown_Forsythe
>    > ### Title: Brown-Forsythe Test for Homogeniety
>    > ### Aliases: Brown_Forsythe
>    >
>    > ### ** Examples
>    >
>    >     data(FH_data)
>    >    x1=FH_data$SurvivalTime
>    >    x2=FH_data$HospitalNo
>    >    Brown_Forsythe(x1,x2)
>    Error in loadNamespace(x) : there is no package called ‘knitr’
>    Calls: Brown_Forsythe ... loadNamespace -> withRestarts -> withOneRestart
> -> doWithOneRestart
>    Execution halted
> 
> Package: RSStest
> Check: examples
> New result: ERROR
>    Running examples in ‘RSStest-Ex.R’ failed
>    The error most likely occurred in:
> 
>    > base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
>    > ### Name: teststat_MRSS
>    > ### Title: Median Ranked Set Sampling Test
>    > ### Aliases: teststat_MRSS
>    >
>    > ### ** Examples
>    >
>    > x1=matrix(c(1,2.3, 3.4,4.5,5.6,4 ),nrow=3)
>    > x2=matrix(c(2,3.2, 4.2,6.5,4.6,6 ),nrow=3)
>    > teststat_MRSS(x1,x2,tn=1000)
>    Error in loadNamespace(x) : there is no package called ‘knitr’
>    Calls: teststat_MRSS ... loadNamespace -> withRestarts -> withOneRestart
> -> doWithOneRestart
>    Execution halted
> 
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