[R-pkg-devel] Cannot repro failing CRAN autochecks

[Josiah Parry]

Thanks, Ivan!

As you can see, the directory is ignored already
https://github.com/R-ArcGIS/arcgisutils/blob/ff8a0a1b936e27be16ac866aa16605b973d435c7/.Rbuildignore#L14

The directory is created in the Makevars after the zip is untarred:

https://github.com/R-ArcGIS/arcgisutils/blob/ff8a0a1b936e27be16ac866aa16605b973d435c7/src/Makevars#L17

Then the directory is removed during the clean phase I believe as well.

I have other packages that use a similar makevars that are in CRAN.

Since I can’t repro it I’m not sure how to debug it without submitting to
CRAN again.



On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 14:40 Ivan Krylov <ikrylov using disroot.org> wrote:

> В Tue, 7 May 2024 14:03:42 -0400
> Josiah Parry <josiah.parry using gmail.com> пишет:
>
> > This NOTE does not appear in Ubuntu, Mac, or Windows checks
> >
> https://github.com/R-ArcGIS/arcgisutils
> /actions/runs/8989812276/job/24693685840
> <https://github.com/R-ArcGIS/arcgisutils/actions/runs/8989812276/job/24693685840>
>
> That's a bit strange. It fires for me in a local R CMD check for a test
> package even without --as-cran. The code performing the check has been
> in R since ~2010.
>
> > I've made an edit to the Makevars to specifically remove this
> > directory, but it seems to continue to persist.
>
> It's too late for Makevars to exclude files from the source package
> tarball. Use .Rbuildignore instead:
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Building-binary-packages
>
> I think that the line src/vendor/chrono/CITATION\\.cff will prevent the
> file from appearing in the package tarball.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ivan
>

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