It looks like the drat repo you linked to only has windows binaries for 3.2, which is probably too old for win builder? Just a guess.
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:28 AM, Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
