[R-pkg-devel] Date of CRAN checks

[Simon Urbanek]

Lluís,

the timestamps are generated by the CRAN server when it updates webpage from the actual check reports so it does not reflect the date/time of the check itself (neither does the timestamp of the URL as it is often re-generated). So in short, no, there is no way to know the timestamp of the check. I think it may be useful, so I'll see if we can add it.

That said, checks are not re-run unless you update the version of your package (or there is an error caused by another package whose update will fix it), so in most cases waiting won't fix anything. If there is a problem you have to report it to the corresponding CRAN maintainer so for macOS that would be me.

Cheers,
Simon


> On Jan 30, 2025, at 5:10 AM, Lluís Revilla <lluis.revilla using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> Recently after a package update I noticed an ERROR on one flavor.
> I believe this is some problem with the r-release-macos-x86_64 flavor.
> But I'm not sure if this is fixed on the system or not.
> I was waiting to see if this got fixed with time (and thanks to the CRAN
> volunteers).
> 
> A check landing page on CRAN had a date "Last updated on 2025-01-29
> 08:49:42 CET." then it changed to "2025-01-29 15:49:25 CET.". Because there
> are some checks that are still from the old version of the package and the
> failing check is still failing, I'm not sure which checks were updated. Is
> this the date of the landing page of all the checks, or all the checks are
> updated up to that date?
> 
> Bioconductor provides the time with two fields: StartedAt and EndedAt for
> each flavor (and step).
> I hoped to find a date on the check logs. It would make it easier to know
> when it is updated and it has the same result as previously.
> Is there a way to know when a given check was run on CRAN?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lluís
> 
> PS:  The problem is shared by many packages (>50), the vignette can be
> built but not rebuilt and it raises an error message about not finding
> pandoc.
> 
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