Hi, Uwe et al.:
The sos vignette sos.Rnw now fails on GitHub, complaining of a LaTeX
error in "{\tt pspline_ checker}". I don't find it in the code for
sos.Rnw. It may be triggered by a response to an internet search that's
different from before.
https://github.com/sbgraves237/sos
Uwe suggests I postprocess output with gsub("_", "\\\\_", output).
It's not clear to me where I should apply this. I am not eager to
change the code in the package, because it could break something else
that's currently working.
Suggestions?
Thanks
Spencer Graves
On 5/16/23 7:41 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
On 16.05.2023 14:02, Spencer Graves wrote:
On 5/16/23 6:06 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
On 16.05.2023 01:46, Spencer Graves wrote:
Hello, All:
The sos package is failing some CRAN checks, complaining:[1]
LaTeX errors:
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
$
l.303 {\tt pspline_
checker} in the
I can only guess this is part of the response you got from some sos
request? I cannot reproduce it currently.
So check:
Does your package pass check if some function names including an
underscore in the name is returned from an sos request?
Hi, Uwe et al.:
Thanks, Uwe, for your reply.
It's complaining about something in a vignette that has been
part of the package since it appeared in The R Journal in Volume 1/2
in 2009. I received an email from Prof. Ripley complaining that it
reported problems ("WARN") on some of the CRAN checks. When I asked,
Prof. Ripley reply's reply included:
>> l.303 {\tt pspline_
>> checker} in the
>> ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>>
>> Underlines need to be escaped in LaTeX. And as your results
depend on
>> Internet downloads,
>>
>> "Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with an
>> informative message if the resource is not available or has changed
>> (and not give a check warning nor error)."
>>
>> applies: you need to anticipate that the results might include
>> underlines.
I don't know how to detect, let alone fix the "Underlines" that
"need to be escaped in LaTeX."
If you receive an output, postprocess it via
gsub("_", "\\\\_", output)
Regarding the other issue that "Packages which use Internet
resources should fail gracefully with an informative message if the
resource is not available or has changed (and not give a check warning
nor error)", I assume I should wrap in "try" all tests in *.Rd files
that access the Internet and make sure that they don't fail "R CMD
check" if the Internet is not available.
Yes.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
Comments?
Thanks again,
Spencer Graves
p.s. Yesterday I remember I got "WARN" on three of six CRAN checks
against r-devel on different platforms and NOTE on four of the seven
other CRAN checks. Today I see "WARN" on only two. If I just wait,
these "WARN" problems may go away by themselves. However, Prof.
Ripley gave me other problems to fix, and I want to support our kind,
smart and generous English professor.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
! Emergency stop.
<inserted text>
$
l.303 {\tt pspline_
checker} in the
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
--- failed re-building 'sos.Rnw'
I can NOT replicate these locally nor with GitHub action, and
I failed to find 'psp' in 'sos.Rnw'.[2] This raises two issue:
OBVIOUS: What can I do to fix this error, or at least to understand
it better?
SUBTLE: How can I configure "github action", so it can replicate
the errors reported on CRAN?
Thanks,
Spencer
[1]
https://cran.r-project.org
[2]
https://github.com/sbgraves237/sos
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: CRAN package sos
Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 14:46:06 +0100
From: Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CRAN <c...@r-project.org>
To: Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com>
CC: c...@r-project.org
<snip>
On 12/05/2023 13:03, Spencer Graves wrote:
Hello, All:
You have just spammed my personal email address, contrary to the
CRAN policy and done so deliberately and/or recklessly, overriding
the Reply-To header.
Is MASS being withdrawn along with multiple other packages
(mgcv, survival, boot, lattice)?
Not so. And that was a failure to do your own homework as you
should have looked on CRAN to see that they are still available.
Further
options(repos=c(CRAN="http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu";))
does not respect the user's choice of repository: that seems to make
re-making it unreasonably slow. On my very fast MacBook Pro
* checking re-building of vignette outputs ...^R
[26s/265s] OK
so it is waiting 90% of the time.
That's responsible for 3 of the 4 'warnings' listed there.
The warning for r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc says "LaTeX errors:
! Missing $ inserted ... Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file
produced! ... Vignette re-building failed."
These all sound to me like operating system errors. If
there's something here I should do, I could use help in
understanding what.
Do read the message -- it is a LaTeX error in the LaTeX code your
package's vignettes generates.
LaTeX errors:
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
$
l.303 {\tt pspline_
checker} in the
! Emergency stop.
<inserted text>
$
l.303 {\tt pspline_
checker} in the
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Underlines need to be escaped in LaTeX. And as your results depend
on Internet downloads,
"Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with
an informative message if the resource is not available or has
changed (and not give a check warning nor error)."
applies: you need to anticipate that the results might include
underlines.
Thanks,
Spencer Graves
m: 1-408-655-4567
On 5/12/23 1:38 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Dear maintainer,
Please see the problems shown on
<https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_sos.html>.
Please correct before 2023-05-26 to safely retain your package on
CRAN.
The CRAN Team
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