[R-pkg-devel] Unreproducible error for CRAN submission on winbuilder using r-devel

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 2025-04-06 4:08 a.m., Chris Brien wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I submitted my package asremlPlus 4.4.47 to CRAN on Thurs 3/04/2025 and it generated an Error (and a NOTE) on Winbuilder using R version 4.5.0 RC (2025-04-04 r88102 ucrt):
> 
> package asremlPlus_4.4.47.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically, please see the following pre-tests (additional issue checks):
> Windows: <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/asremlPlus_4.4.47_20250403_120518/Windows/00check.log<https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/asremlPlus_4.4.47_20250403_120518/Windows/00check.log>>
> Status: 1 ERROR, 1 NOTE
> 
> I ran R CMD check on the package using r-devel r88102 and was unable to generate the ERROR.
> 
> So, I submitted the package to Winbuilder r-devel and the package does not generate an error using R version 4.5.0 RC (2025-04-04 r88112 ucrt) - see https://win-builder.r-project.org/Ht2zyDE9N1Xx/00check.log.
> 
> Can I assume that the error was transitory and resubmit my package to CRAN?
> 
> Cheers,

The error was

"Error in pf(q = Fvalue, df1 = ndf, df2 = ddf, lower.tail = FALSE) :
   Non-numeric argument to mathematical function"

That doesn't look like something that would be transitory.  If you are 
working with random data it might be hard to reproduce, but still worth 
worrying about.  Or it could be transitory because some package you're 
using was updated between the two runs, or some weird timing issue 
caused some value to be wrong.

Duncan Murdoch