My intent wasn't particularly to blame CRAN, just puzzlement that a normally-chatty test script is silently dying in this one case. Anyway, thanks for the advice. Ben
On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/10/2015 8:06 AM, Ben Bond-Lamberty wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> My recent package was accepted and posted by CRAN, but the check >> results (https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_luzlogr.html) >> show an error for flavor 'r-oldrel-windows-ix86+x86_64'. Everything >> else passes fine. Unfortunately the error diagnostics are not >> particularly helpful, only showing that four tests failed; the only >> common thread I see, maybe, is that all four tests--and no others--use >> R's file.size() function. >> >> Any suggestions on figuring out what's going on? Is this necessary to >> fix? I'd rather not track down an old Windows machine and install an >> old R release on it just to debug, though will if necessary. > > Those errors came in your own test script, so you should be able to make > the messages more informative. Don't blame CRAN for that. > > You shouldn't need an old Windows machine, just an old release of R. > The result script shows that R-oldrel is 3.1.3; a binary for that is > available on CRAN. (Of course, it's possible that the error is specific > to the version of Windows on the CRAN machine, but it's pretty easy to > find out if the problem is reproducible on whatever Windows machine you > do have.) > > Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
