On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM Lenth, Russell V via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > Dear R-Help, > > When I submit an update to one of my packages, I decided to try to avoid > having to fix errors that sometimes occur in CRAN's reverse-dependency checks > by performing the same checks ahead of time. From what I can tell, the way to > do this is to use > > tools::check_packages_in_dir(..., reverse = list(which = "all"), ...) > > It does not surprise me that this takes a lot of time! One of my packages has > quite a few reverse suggests, so this process installs all packages that my > package or any of the reverse depends requires, which is about a zillion. But > eventually, this works. I've learned to run this in batch mode so it doesn't > tie up Rgui or RStudio. That's fine; I just have a script that I can run. > > I have two questions: > > 1. While it is installing all those packages, I see a lot of chatter so I can > see what progress is being made, however glacial. But when it gets the the > phase where it checks each of the reverse-dependent packages, it is utterly > silent. It would be really helpful to me if check_packages_in_dir() would > just print a one-line message that it is checking such-and-such package. > > 2. Is there any way to streamline the checking? It seems to me that since all > the packages are already on CRAN and thus pass most checks, all that we need > to check for reverse dependencies are the examples, vignettes, and tests. > This could save a lot of time.
You may also want to try the recheck container + github action, which runs the recheck process on public infrastructure: https://github.com/r-devel/recheck > > Thanks > > Russ Lenth > U of Iowa, USA > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
