It may be worth checking if the users can install the package if you send them (1) tarball or (2) a binary build (if you don't have Windows, win-builder creates one).
A user had a similar issue with a package Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: R-package-devel <r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Pavel N. Krivitsky <p.krivit...@unsw.edu.au> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2021 4:06:33 AM To: R Package Devel <r-package-devel@r-project.org> Subject: [R-pkg-devel] How to debug build-time dynamic documentation issues? Dear All, TL;DR: Is there a way to get a full traceback and/or frame dump for errors that occur in build-time and install-time \Sexpr{} calls in R documentation files? # Context I am working on a package ( https://github.com/joycecheng/ergm/tree/ergm-term-index ) whose documentation includes a number of \Sexpr[stage=render]{} calls, and I am getting reports that some Windows users are not able to install the package because they get errors when the HTML indices are being built. Complicating the matter is that this only seems to affect some Windows systems but not others. Unfortunately, R's output is not very helpful in identifying the problem beyond the help file in which it had occurred and the terminal error message. For example, on those systems with R 4.1.0: remotes::install_github("joycecheng/ergm@ergm-term-index") gives (for those users): [SNIP] ergmConstraint html Error: incorrect number of dimensions - removing 'C:/Users/[SNIP]/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpURZYMP/Rinst1144e5a2698/ergm' ----------------------------------- ERROR: package installation failed Error: Failed to install 'ergm' from GitHub: System command 'Rcmd.exe' failed, exit status: 1, stdout + stderr (last 10 lines): E> ergm.exact html E> ergm.geodistdist html E> ergm.getnetwork html E> ergm.godfather html E> ergm.mple html E> ergmConstraint html E> Error: incorrect number of dimensions E> * removing 'C:/Users/[SNIP]/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpURZYMP/Rinst1144e5a2698/ergm' E> ----------------------------------- E> ERROR: package installation failed # What I've tried so far * Running the code in the \Sexpr{} manually in an R session doesn't reproduce the error: this seems to be a build/install-time issue. * options(error=...) does the wrong thing, because the \Sexpr{} code is run inside tryCatch(), so what gets traced and/or dumped is catching code, not the original error. Thanks in advance, Pavel ______________________________________________ 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
