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

[Chris Brien]

Hi Duncan,

Thanks for your comments.

"Error in pf(q = Fvalue, df1 = ndf, df2 = ddf, lower.tail = FALSE) :
Non-numeric argument to mathematical function"
Indeed, and the problem arises from a call to the anova function of lmerTest whose latest versions is 2020-10-23.


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.

The data is a data set from asremlplus called Oat.dat, so not random at all.

It seems that the most likely explanation is that it is some weird transitory issue on the CRAN incoming check that caused some value to be wrong.

Anyway, asremlPlus has now been resubmitted and is on its way to CRAN.

Cheers,

 Chris



From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, 6 April 2025 11:03 PM
To: Chris Brien <chris.brien using adelaide.edu.au>; r-package-devel using r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Unreproducible error for CRAN submission on winbuilder using r-devel

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><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<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

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