[R-SIG-Mac] CRAN Checks for R-Release appear to use R-Devel

[Simon Urbanek]

Marc,

thanks, now it makes sense to me. Yes, the checks results don't seem to be synced and it is also missing the arm64 checks. I'll investigate.

Thanks,
Simon


> On May 26, 2021, at 8:35 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz using me.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is in reply to Simon's request that I post on this topic separately from Hans' prior thread on rlang related problems.
> 
> In the course of looking at a few CRAN packages for that thread, including my own, I noted on the CRAN checks page for each package, that the results logs indicate the use of "R Under development", rather than the current R release version.
> 
> Specific example:
> 
> The CRAN check page for rlang:
> 
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rlang.html
> 
> shows in row 10:
> 
> r-release-macos-x86_64  OK
> 
> If I click on OK to get the CRAN check log with the following URL:
> 
> https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macos-x86_64/rlang-00check.html
> 
> noting that the above URL shows:
> 
> .../r-release-macos-x86_64/...
> 
> However, the log header shows:
> 
> "using R Under development (unstable) (2021-02-19 r80028)"
> 
> Thus, if I read correctly, while the link should be for the CRAN check results log for the package using R release (4.1.0), it appears to be using an R development version from February 19, 2021.
> 
> If I check the same R Release logs for Linux and Windows for rlang:
> 
> https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-linux-x86_64/rlang-00check.html
> 
> and:
> 
> https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-windows-ix86+x86_64/rlang-00check.html
> 
> respectively, both indicate:
> 
> using R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
> 
> in the log headers.
> 
> If I check the rlang logs for other OSs on "r-devel", they indicate:
> 
> "using R Under development (unstable) (2021-05-20 r80347)"
> 
> Thus, a more recent development version of R from May 20, 2021.
> 
> So, perhaps naively, I would presume a configuration issue for the macOS binaries on CRAN.
> 
> Simon, does that clarify the point I was making in the prior thread?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marc
>