[R-pkg-devel] Failed: Future File Timestamp Check

[Duncan Murdoch]

One question is when that file is produced.  Do you produce it before 
preparing the tarball, or is it produced as part of the installation 
process?

Duncan Murdoch

On 2025-02-04 6:27 p.m., Josiah Parry wrote:
> The file was written using writeLines() but it is just a normal R script
> with normal function definitions and is included in the R/ directory. The
> source code is just programmatically generated.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 14:54 Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
> wrote:
> 
>> Packages are supposed to work when mounted in a read-only filesystem...
>> using writeLines seems like a very bad idea since you can't assume the
>> package install is writeable when it is run, and running code from tmp is a
>> security hole.
>>
>> If you absolutely cannot think of a way around running code from generated
>> files, then maybe you should use textConnection to run from internal RAM.
>>
>> On February 4, 2025 1:11:10 PM PST, Josiah Parry <josiah.parry using gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I'm running R CMD check for my package {calcite} (source:
>>> https://github.com/r-arcGIS/calcite) which is failing due to what
>> *looks* like
>>> a bug.
>>>
>>> R CMD check fails at "checking for future file timestamps"
>>>
>>> I get this error:  ...Error in if (abs(unclass(now_local) -
>>> unclass(now)[1]) > 300) missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed.
>>>
>>> It seems that an NA is being generated somehow during this check but I'm
>>> unsure how.
>>>
>>> One thing that comes to mind is that the file that contains all of my
>>> function definitions is generated using writeLines() but the output of `
>>> file.info()` looks normal to me.
>>>
>>> Have others encountered this? I'm on R 4.4.0 Puppy Cup
>>>
>>> platform       aarch64-apple-darwin20
>>> arch           aarch64
>>> os             darwin20
>>> system         aarch64, darwin20
>>> status
>>> major          4
>>> minor          4.0
>>> year           2024
>>> month          04
>>> day            24
>>> svn rev        86474
>>> language       R
>>> version.string R version 4.4.0 (2024-04-24)
>>> nickname       Puppy Cup
>>>
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>> --
>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>>
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