[R-pkg-devel] Rolling Back an Archived Package

[Ivan Krylov]

В Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:15:28 +0000
Eric Giunta <egiunta using ksu.edu> пишет:

> Recently I submitted a large update to the package I maintain and was
> unable to resolve the testing errors prior to it being archived. I've
> been unable to reproduce the errors, so I expect to have to setup my
> own fedora_clang virtual machine to debug my package. 

> Is it against CRAN policy to resubmit an earlier version of an
> archived package, assuming I fully explain what led to the archival
> and re-submission in the submission comment?

If this is Colossus [1], as suggested by Lluís, I would recommend
making sure that you can reproduce the problem with the latest version
of the package and then verifying that the previous version of the
package doesn't exhibit that problem.

Unfortunately, starting with `podman run fedora:36` and following [2]
to compile clang-18 and R was not enough to reproduce the problem for
me: the tests in Colossus_1.1.4.1.tar.gz don't fail. I even tried with
19.1.0 by accident.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan

[1]
https://cran-archive.r-project.org/web/checks/2024/2024-09-23_check_results_Colossus.html

[2]
https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/Rconfig/r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

It's important to install llvm-18.1.8, not 19.1.0 from the example URL.