issue with testInstalledPackage
FWIW I've been reasonably happy with the revdepcheck package: it's not base-R, but it's pretty robust (lme4 'only' has 286 dependencies to check ...) I've had much better luck running it on a remote server (where the sysadmin is responsive so it's not too much trouble to get extra system dependencies/Debian packages installed as they become necessary).
On 2018-11-26 3:42 p.m., Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel wrote:
Background: I run tools::testInstalledPackage on all packages that dependend on survival
(605 as of today) before sending a new release to CRAN. It has a few false positives which
I then follow up on.? (Mostly packages with as-yet-incomplete tests in their inst directory).
?Issue: testInstalledPackage("mets")? generates an? "Error in checkVignettes(pkg,
lib.loc, latex = FALSE, weave = TRUE)" message, which stops my script.? The source code
for that package passes R CMD check.
I can easily work around this in the short term by adding mets to my do-not-check list.
Footnote: the newer "check_packages_in_dir" routine doesn't work for me.?? The biggest
reason is that it doesn't have a way to give a list of packages to skip.? My little
desktop box doesn't have every linux library (cryptography, geospatial, etc.), nor do I
load up bioconductor; which leads to a boatload of false positives.? I keep adding things
but the packages add faster.
Terry T.
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