[R-pkg-devel] Cascade effect of non-available packages?

[Georgi Boshnakov]

A lot of packages are erring on CRAN at the moment. From time to time weird things happen en masse. It is better to wait a little for intermittent problems to clear themselves out, especially during the weekend.

Georgi Boshnakov

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From: R-package-devel <r-package-devel-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 3, 2024 2:17:21 PM
To: Tiago Olivoto <tiagoolivoto using gmail.com>
Cc: R Package Devel <r-package-devel using r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Cascade effect of non-available packages?


On 3 November 2024 at 11:02, Tiago Olivoto wrote:
| Today, I noticed that several stable packages, such as Rcpp and sf, were
| unavailable during the check process for this submission. This wasn�t an
| issue in the previously published version of pliman. Could this be a
| temporary problem with the package availability on CRAN?

I could be. (Auto-)build systems for 21k packages and 3 architectures can be
fragile, and we are in time of transition (R 4.4.2 just came about) so this
could have been spurious.  If in doubt, check the status of a given package
at its CRAN page. But I looked at the log links yu provided, and I saw no
build failure over 'missing Rcpp and/or sf' there.  Can you point us to an
error?

Moreover, reading
  https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/pliman_3.0.0_20241102_181842/specialChecks/noSuggests/summary.txt__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!Af5Xuvyms6hGqaC8rcf5EXqH8icVsEPEbdr4dvBxDrdeNRZb4hlwLZo9QccOefhWkiYMiOT4lFhp93zWR5eCbGaJ$ [win-builder[.]r-project[.]org]
I do not see your aforementioned 'check_ebi()' function at work. The
suggested package is not present, you are asked to not fail and just skip
but do not seem to do so. I think you need to fix that, and that the CRAN
messaging is fairly clear and standard here. I may of course have missed
something in which case 'my bad'.

Dirk

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