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

[David Hugh-Jones]

Thanks for this tip. Out of interest, is there a way to make win/Mac
builder run revdep checks?

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On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 at 10:26, Lluís Revilla <lluis.revilla using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> If you didn't increase the version number it could happen that the old
> version of the package was used (as CRAN might not be aware that there is a
> new version).
> The CRAN repository policy says: "Increasing the version number at each
> submission reduces confusion so is preferred even when a previous
> submission was not accepted".
> In addition, it is easier to track how smooth the submission process is
> for maintainers/developers.
>
> I would recommend submitting again, changing the version number of the
> package.
> Checking on  win builders and macos builders CRAN provides is the closest
> one, other approaches include rhub2.
>
> Best,
>
> Lluís
>
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 at 10:24, David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjones using gmail.com>
> 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?
>>
>> 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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