FYI. SparkR submission failed. It seems to detect Java 11 correctly with vignettes but not skipping tests as would be expected.
Error: processing vignette ‘sparkr-vignettes.Rmd’ failed with diagnostics: Java version 8 is required for this package; found version: 11.0.1 Execution halted * checking PDF version of manual ... OK * DONE Status: 1 WARNING, 1 NOTE Current CRAN status: ERROR: 1, OK: 1 See: <https://CRAN.R-project.org/web/checks/check_results_SparkR.html> Version: 2.3.0 Check: tests, Result: ERROR Running ‘run-all.R’ [8s/35s] Running the tests in ‘tests/run-all.R’ failed. Last 13 lines of output: 4: callJStatic("org.apache.spark.ml.r.GeneralizedLinearRegressionWrapper", "fit", formula, data@sdf, tolower(family$family), family$link, tol, as.integer(maxIter), weightCol, regParam, as.double(var.power), as.double(link.power), stringIndexerOrderType, offsetCol) 5: invokeJava(isStatic = TRUE, className, methodName, ...) 6: handleErrors(returnStatus, conn) 7: stop(readString(conn)) ══ testthat results ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ OK: 0 SKIPPED: 0 FAILED: 2 1. Error: create DataFrame from list or data.frame (@test_basic.R#26) 2. Error: spark.glm and predict (@test_basic.R#58) ---------- Forwarded message --------- Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 10:12 Subject: [CRAN-pretest-archived] CRAN submission SparkR 2.4.0 Dear maintainer, package SparkR_2.4.0.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically, please see the following pre-tests: Windows: <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/SparkR_2.4.0_20181105_165757/Windows/00check.log> Status: 1 NOTE Debian: <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/SparkR_2.4.0_20181105_165757/Debian/00check.log> Status: 1 WARNING, 1 NOTE Last released version's CRAN status: ERROR: 1, OK: 1 See: <https://CRAN.R-project.org/web/checks/check_results_SparkR.html> CRAN Web: <https://cran.r-project.org/package=SparkR> Please fix all problems and resubmit a fixed version via the webform. If you are not sure how to fix the problems shown, please ask for help on the R-package-devel mailing list: <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel> If you are fairly certain the rejection is a false positive, please reply-all to this message and explain. More details are given in the directory: <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/SparkR_2.4.0_20181105_165757/> The files will be removed after roughly 7 days. No strong reverse dependencies to be checked. Best regards, CRAN teams' auto-check service Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64 Check: CRAN incoming feasibility, Result: NOTE Maintainer: 'Shivaram Venkataraman <shiva...@cs.berkeley.edu<mailto:shiva...@cs.berkeley.edu>>' New submission Package was archived on CRAN Possibly mis-spelled words in DESCRIPTION: Frontend (4:10, 5:28) CRAN repository db overrides: X-CRAN-Comment: Archived on 2018-05-01 as check problems were not corrected despite reminders. Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc Check: re-building of vignette outputs, Result: WARNING Error in re-building vignettes: ... Attaching package: 'SparkR' The following objects are masked from 'package:stats': cov, filter, lag, na.omit, predict, sd, var, window The following objects are masked from 'package:base': as.data.frame, colnames, colnames<-, drop, endsWith, intersect, rank, rbind, sample, startsWith, subset, summary, transform, union trying URL 'http://mirror.klaus-uwe.me/apache/spark/spark-2.4.0/spark-2.4.0-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz' Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 227893062 bytes (217.3 MB) ================================================== downloaded 217.3 MB Quitting from lines 65-67 (sparkr-vignettes.Rmd) Error: processing vignette 'sparkr-vignettes.Rmd' failed with diagnostics: Java version 8 is required for this package; found version: 11.0.1 Execution halted