Re: [R-pkg-devel] Non-mainstream repository dependence for CRAN vignette building

2020-10-01 Thread Max Turgeon
Hi Nicholas, I see two potential solutions, maybe other people will suggest different ones: 1. You can make the evaluation of the whole vignette dependent on the data packages being available. Here's an example from one of my packages:

[R-pkg-devel] Non-mainstream repository dependence for CRAN vignette building

2020-10-01 Thread Bennett Nicolas
Dear list I’m in the process of submitting a package to CRAN that uses a non-mainstream repository for several data packages that are too large for CRAN (~50 MB in total) and therefore live in a drat repository hosted by gh. Data from these packages is used during vignette building and

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN badges in README

2020-10-01 Thread Helmut Schütz
Dear Zhian, Zhian N. Kamvar wrote on 2020-10-01 16:43: You might be having browser cache issues because I just looked and things are fine on this end. You can double check in another browser or clear the cache (usually via Preferences > Settings > Security). FWIW, cran checks is an

Re: [R-pkg-devel] dependency fails checking a package on ASAN/UBSAN (on r-hub)

2020-10-01 Thread Gábor Csárdi
It seems that Debian testing has a new version of libxml2, or maybe the ICU is newer, and the xml package does not compile with this. I am afraid that xml2 needs some fixes to solve this. It might be enough to require C++11 support. If you don't want to wait for the xml2 maintainer, then you can

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN Windows failure due to old pandoc ?

2020-10-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 26 September 2020 at 14:42, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 26 September 2020 at 14:20, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | | On 26/09/2020 12:54 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | Hmmm, that's strange. From what I can see you only get the --lua-filter | | if pandoc 2.0 is available: | | | |

[R-pkg-devel] dependency fails checking a package on ASAN/UBSAN (on r-hub)

2020-10-01 Thread Georgi Boshnakov
Hi, A package submitted on CRAN shows problems only on ASAN/UBSAN. I used 'r-hub' (rhub::check()) to check if my update has fixed that on that platform but This is unsuccessful since a dependency fails to install. The dependency in question is 'xml2' so it surely can be installed one way or

[R-pkg-devel] CRAN badges in README

2020-10-01 Thread Helmut Schütz
Dear all, we are using badges in README files of our packages on GitHub and CRAN. Recently wrong results are reported: https://github.com/Helmut01/replicateBE#readme shows CRAN Error https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/replicateBE/readme/README.html shows CRAN Not OK though OK at