>Additional repositories _with no_ packages: > https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/
Is it possible that the CRAN has a more stringent check and not only check that there is a web link, But also that it is an R package repository? This would explain the difference (but not if the lrepo is fine of course). Georgi Boshnakov -----Original Message----- From: R-package-devel [mailto:r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Hugh Parsonage Sent: 05 February 2018 11:29 To: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Strange Additional_repositories NOTE followed by package install error I am unable to reproduce a recent R CMD check failure on CRAN concerning a package of mine: grattan. This package Suggests: taxstats which is a large package hosted by an Additional repository: https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ When I run this check locally, on travis, and on appveyor with _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_ = true I get the expected NOTE: * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE Maintainer: ‘Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com>’ Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories: taxstats Availability using Additional_repositories specification: taxstats yes https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ However, on CRAN (including win-builder) I get the rather curious NOTE: * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE Maintainer: 'Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com>' Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories: taxstats Availability using Additional_repositories specification: taxstats no ? ? ? https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ Additional repositories with no packages: https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ followed by errors resulting from failures to install 'taxstats' when code such as the following is run to re-build vignettes: if (requireNamespace("taxstats", quietly = TRUE)){ library(taxstats) } else { templib <- tempfile() hutils::provide.dir(templib) install.packages("taxstats", lib = templib, repos = "https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/";, type = "source") library("taxstats", lib.loc = templib) } Since the failures only occur on Windows machines, and have only appeared recently, I have considered modifying the DESCRIPTION file to 'trick' win-builder into reinstalling taxstats, as I suspect there may be caching issues. However, given that the 'taxstats' package takes a fairly long time to install, I don't want to do this nor submit to CRAN in case I am missing something else that's causing the check to fail. ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -----Original Message----- From: R-package-devel [mailto:r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Hugh Parsonage Sent: 05 February 2018 11:29 To: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Strange Additional_repositories NOTE followed by package install error I am unable to reproduce a recent R CMD check failure on CRAN concerning a package of mine: grattan. This package Suggests: taxstats which is a large package hosted by an Additional repository: https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ When I run this check locally, on travis, and on appveyor with _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_ = true I get the expected NOTE: * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE Maintainer: ‘Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com>’ Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories: taxstats Availability using Additional_repositories specification: taxstats yes https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ However, on CRAN (including win-builder) I get the rather curious NOTE: * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE Maintainer: 'Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com>' Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories: taxstats Availability using Additional_repositories specification: taxstats no ? ? ? https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ Additional repositories with no packages: https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/ followed by errors resulting from failures to install 'taxstats' when code such as the following is run to re-build vignettes: if (requireNamespace("taxstats", quietly = TRUE)){ library(taxstats) } else { templib <- tempfile() hutils::provide.dir(templib) install.packages("taxstats", lib = templib, repos = "https://hughparsonage.github.io/drat/";, type = "source") library("taxstats", lib.loc = templib) } Since the failures only occur on Windows machines, and have only appeared recently, I have considered modifying the DESCRIPTION file to 'trick' win-builder into reinstalling taxstats, as I suspect there may be caching issues. However, given that the 'taxstats' package takes a fairly long time to install, I don't want to do this nor submit to CRAN in case I am missing something else that's causing the check to fail. ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
