[R-pkg-devel] rhub (old and new) balks at building ncdf4 package

[Daniel Kelley]

I have a package, named 'oce' (developed at www.github.com/dankelley/oce and available through CRAN for over a decade) that uses 'ncdf4' to read some file types.  When I do test builds on the win and mac builders, all is fine.  When I do it with rhub, though, I get an error that ncdf4 cannot be built from source.

I think it's been this way for quite a while, perhaps months  Should I be doing something when I invoke rhub (locally or on github) to tell it to use a prebuild ncdf4 package?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Dan E. Kelley
Professor, Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University