In my experience, if I aggressively update my development installation of
Bioconductor (including occasional updates of R-devel when appropriate) I
can usually replicate most-all failures on the build server which has the
same OS as my local machine. It does require aggressive updating though.
Thanks for the comments.
A docker image doesn't help with differences between operating systems.
A docker image wouldn't be practical for the build system, where there are
1000's of packages installed.
A docker image would need to be updated daily, since that is what the build
system does;
Dear Bioc Core Team
I have created many Bioconductor packages, but it is always hard to pass the R
CMD CHECK/BiocCheck.
Especially, it is still difficult to construct the identical environment of
single/daily package builder in the local machine.
Sometimes the error is caused by the
